Chinese culture's role helping young South Africans

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Under the framework of the Belt and Road Initiative and China's speeding pace of cultural exports, more and more South Africans are becoming interested in learning Chinese language and martial arts.

Amin Banderker, 16, loves Chinese culture, particularly Kung Fu. Banderker is lucky as he meets the Chinese teacher Li Jinmiao, whose teaching method is lively and interesting, giving him a huge motivation to learn more.

Amin is learning Chinese. /CGTN Photo

Banderker is about to head to Pretoria to take part in the "Chinese Bridge" competition and he hopes to better understand Chinese culture through this event.

The young Sinophile said he has a wish that someday he could live in China for a while and share experiences there with his friends and family.

Teacher Li once told him the story of Zheng He's voyage, which left a deep impression on him.

700 years ago, the Chinese navigator Zheng he began a global sailing, which considered to be the "world's most important crossroads of trade" in the 15th century.

Along the way of his journey, he built friendly relations between countries and also brought greetings and friendship form the East to African people.

Black fox shows his martial arts school in South Africa with his young students. /CGTN Photo

Master Black fox, a Zulu man who is living in Durban, a coastal city in eastern South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province. As the master of the Black Fox martial arts school, he offers martial arts courses for young people around the community.

When it comes to the reason of contacting Kung Fu, Black fox said he often suffered headache at youth time but medical treatment seemed not working on him. Therefore, his father decided to send him to learn Chinese martial arts.

Teacher Li Jinmiao and Amin stands in the coast of Durban. /CGTN Photo

During the training, he relieved from the pain and deeply fell in love with this unique art unveiling the mysterious force of the East.

Later on, Black fox made a decision to open a martial art school to teach young people who loving Chinese Kung Fu in South Africa. In his view, learning Chinese Kung Fu is a good way to cultivate the spirit of assiduous and perseverance.

He hoped that the younger generation in South Africa could find their inner peace through Chinese martial arts studying.

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