Program Activities of Shuyuan China

Since its establishment in 2012, the Shuyuan China Cultural Development Foundation has been carrying out public welfare projects, including the Public Welfare Shuyuan Project, the Inheritance Funding Program and the Yalu Funding Program. The Public Welfare Shuyuan Program draws on the ancient Shuyuan model, and carries out traditional cultural public welfare activities in a place with a strong traditional cultural atmosphere (Shuyuan), covering areas such as tea ceremony, flower ceremony, incense ceremony, guqin, calligraphy, painting, chanting, kunqu, handicrafts, holiday gatherings, etc., as well as special rituals of the Shuyuan (including changing clothes, purifying the hands, burning incense, reciting the rules of the school, and saluting tea, etc.), which provide the general public with more contact, The program provides the public with more opportunities to experience traditional culture.

The public welfare academies in Beijing that have cooperated with the Foundation include Huilan Academy, Ranya Academy, Duoyi Academy and Depan Academy. Based on the dilemma of inheriting traditional skills in today's society, the Foundation selects traditional cultural programs that have positive significance to the current society and provides lifelong financial support to the inheritors of traditional handicrafts to help them connect with the current society and continue to pass on the traditional skills.

On June 27, 2013, the Jiewenzhai Pen and Ink Inheritor Funding Project was launched to provide financial support to Zhang Xiting, daughter of Zhang Yongfu and Wang Zhuangsheng, son-in-law of Zhang Yongfu, the inheritor of the Jinjiang Pen and Jinjiang Ink in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province; and on November 26, 2013, the Ancient Paper Making Inheritor Funding Project was launched to provide financial support to Zhang Jianchang, the son of Zhang Fengxue, the inheritor of the kozo paper making project in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province. In addition to providing financial support to the inheritors, the Shuyuan China Cultural Development Foundation will also help them with brand image promotion and product packaging. The Shuyuan China Cultural Development Foundation set up the Yalu grant program to support the Yalu Ensemble of the Yalu Research Center of the China Conservatory of Music to carry out Yalu cultural research and performances and other activities, with a view to establishing its own Yalu Ensemble in mainland China and reviving the civilization of ritual and music. Through the integration of resources, the Foundation hopes to inject influential new elements (such as composition, choreography, and chanting) into Yalu, so that the culture of rites and music can be integrated into contemporary Chinese society, and Yalu can be restored to its status as the national rite of passage and become a model for the country's rites and music.

The Yalu Troupe of the Center for Yalu Studies of the China Conservatory of Music took its first step in the reconstruction of rites and music when it took part in the opening and closing performances at the Fifth Beijing Traditional Music Festival in October 2013.