To deeply cultivate China-foreign cultural exchange, innovate the education model for international students, promote the deep integration of excellent traditional Chinese culture with artistic practice, and assist international students in immersively understanding the core of Chinese culture and enhancing cultural identity and sense of belonging, on May 20, the Smart City Service Industry College carried out the "The Charm of Ink and Brush Transmitting Elegance, Nurturing the Mind and Enlightening Wisdom" international students' calligraphy cultural experience class. This course was lectured by Teacher Zhou Yan, using traditional Chinese calligraphy as the carrier, breaking traditional teaching models, allowing overseas students to comprehend the Chinese cultural vein and absorb humanistic spirit in the ink and brush painting, and deepening their understanding and empathy with Chinese culture through practical experience.

Ink and brush condensed ancient charm, and the charm of calligraphy transmitted elegance. In the classroom, Teacher Zhou Yan, combining the development context of Chinese characters and the cultural heritage of calligraphy, vividly explained the artistic charm and humanistic connotation of Chinese calligraphy to international students. From the character structure of horizontal, vertical, left-falling, and right-falling strokes, to the aesthetic conception of ink and brush composition, and then to the millennium civilization and oriental spirit carried by Chinese characters, layer by layer, he led everyone into the world of traditional Chinese culture, allowing students to deeply recognize that calligraphy is not only a uniquely charming traditional art but also an important carrier bearing the spiritual character, value concepts, and cultural heritage of the Chinese people.

In the practical experience segment, under the careful guidance of Teacher Zhou Yan, international students held the brush, ground the ink, and picked up the pen to write, immersively feeling the unique charm of brush calligraphy. Everyone carefully copied classic Chinese characters and cultural theme content, feeling the strength of Chinese characters in every stroke, and comprehending the breadth and profundity of Chinese culture in the process of wielding the brush and splashing ink. One left-falling and one right-falling stroke inherited cultural roots, and every stroke nurtured the original humanistic aspiration. Students improved their aesthetic literacy and cultivated cultural sentiments in the nurturing influence of ink and brush, reading the calm resilience, virtue and goodness, and inclusive openness of the oriental temperament between the lines, achieving a two-way improvement of cultural cognition and value identification through practical experience.

This characteristic cultural experience class, using calligraphy as the medium and culture as the bond, deeply integrated artistic practice with cultural education, achieving two-way empowerment of traditional cultural immersion and humanistic value guidance. The fragrance of ink on a sheet of paper connected Chinese and foreign cultures, and the ink within a small space transmitted Chinese warmth, not only allowing international students to feel the unique charm of excellent traditional Chinese culture up close and building a bridge for mutual learning among civilizations between China and foreign countries, but also allowing cultural education to land and take effect in a subtle and heart-touching way, effectively enhancing international students' sense of identity and belonging to Chinese culture.

In the future, the Smart City Service Industry College will continue to innovate the cultivation model for international students, deeply explore the educational value of excellent traditional Chinese culture, and create more immersive, experiential, and interactive characteristic cultural exchange classes, promoting the continuous transmission of the Chinese cultural vein, allowing more international students to see, understand, and spread the Chinese spirit and Chinese stories, and contributing to the promotion of China-foreign cultural exchange and the improvement of education internationalization.