Aixin symposium‐2

　The second symposium of Aixin Museum was held on Saturday, July 16 at the Museum. The subject was “Chinese characters”－the differences of the meanings and the shapes between the same characters used in Japan and China.

　Zhang Jian, a staff of the Museum and also a Chinese graduate student of Hiroshima University, taking the case of the well-known Chinese poem “At Dawn in Spring” for example, commented on the “connotation” in detail which is one of the important concepts in the Chinese aesthetics especially to appreciate poems. The participants could practice appreciating the poem “At Dawn in Spring” on one of the current digital schools in China.

　They learnt the history of the cultural exchange including the importation of the characters, and recognized some of the characters are not equivalent in each language.