History lessons for expats

Some 100 foreign consuls general, representatives from foreign firms and foreign teachers in Sichuan province recently visited the Jinsha Site Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province, at the invitation of the Sichuan Provincial Association of Friendship with Foreign Countries. They attended a lecture on early history and culture of the Chengdu Plain given by Jiang Zhanghua, a famous archaeologist and deputy curator of the Chengdu Museum, and learned how to make rice dumplings and lanterns. The Sichuan Provincial Association of Friendship with Foreign Countries has been sponsoring visits to one historical site a year for expatriates in Sichuan, said Qiu Yihe, director of the department of foreign cultural exchanges in the association.