Have you started a wonderful new week already?

Since I wrote to you March 3, I have written another 8 new articles and basically completed most of my work on the DVD. When my English tutor was checking and correcting my work, I completed the rest paintings of my long scroll of the 24 filial children. Now I am writing the other rest 10 stories behind the series paintings.

My art teacher will take those paintings to a professional company to decorate them next week, then I will come back to make sure my work on the DVD last time, and then re-paint my first series paintings with music, poetry and articles that I would like to leave in the U.S.

Time is flying and I have been in Shenzhen for 72 days, when I review my days, I was so surprised for what I have done these days:

-- I have corrected 12 old articles for the publication;
-- I have written / corrected more than 40 new articles;
-- I have painted 36 small sizes paintings.
-- I have also written 30 pages to design the web version of the DVD, played few pieces of music; read about 220 pages of a philosophy books, quickly read many Chinese history and literature books...

During the process, I have known what my favorite arts are clearly. The order should be Painting, Writing and Music.

So, I am going to see the situation in the near future. If I can find the best and the most suitable support, I am going to continue the cross-culture and comprehensive art dream with painting, writing and music; Otherwise, I am going to retreat for 2 or 3 years -- to shrink and focus on myself on painting study and writing (article and music), to work on something that I can control, to make more accumulation, while to wait for the opportunities.

I am thinking, to make a beautiful dream to be true, except the effort and hard work of the dreamer, also it needs support outside and relies on the favorable climatic, geographical and human conditions. Therefore, I must act according to the outside condition and my actual ability. In case I have no the strength to make the best beautiful dream to be true, I will take the second best.

Even thought it will be a pity to work on the second best level, it will give me more freedom to look after my family members, my own health and to see more and bigger world.

Do you know? When I wrote these day, I did find a good topic that is worth me to think, research and write further. It will not only help my own project to get actual support, but also, it will offer some idea to the country to train more inter-disciplinary talents. At the same time, also I found there are still so many blanknesses and much incomplete subjects in the traditional Chinese culture and classical language field, even though we have had a written history for over 4000 years already.

There are really too many things that need more people to work on it. I will be always interested in these interesting things...

How about you? Do you have anything special to share?


I am just a student on Arts of Painting, Music, English and Management, to work on the web site in my free time. I would really like to do somethings with what I have learned to make this little web site to be an Electronic Bridge of Cross - Culture and Comprehensive Arts Exchange, Chinese Culture and Language Learning & Friendship Making. To help the others while to improve myself.

I would like to appreciate you for your understanding, directions, supports and help.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, you are welcome to write to shirley@ebridge.cn or leave your message on Message Board.

Shirley Yiping Zhang
March 12, 2013(Beijing Time)