Over the last few months, Ningbo municipal government organized a series of activities for foreign friends to experience Ningbo’s intangible culture heritages including Siming Neijiaquan, gold and silver color embroidery, Ningbo Golden Painted Lacquer.

On the morning of October 30th , 2015, in the Siming internal school boxing hall, Master Xia Baofeng and his senior student demonstrated and taught the basics of Siming Neijiaquan -- an internal fighting style native to Ningbo to a class of German high school students who are visiting Ningbo for a few days. The event was the first in a series meant to shed light on the various cultural heritages of Ningbo’s culture of foreign residents and students. Master Xia the got to demonstrating a few moves by calling up a few students. He motioned to a heavy set student to grab his hand and not let go, before executing a simple bend and slip that immediately pried his hand loose. Laughing, he showed the students again and again before calling more students up to learn some basic grappling techniques. I spoke with one of the German students, who was excited to learn some real kung fu, telling me happily that he would be interested in pursuing it when he returned experience with talking students on such exchange before, and liked sharing Ningbo’s local language and culture with the students.

November 7, 2015, we went to Yin Zhou Gold and silver Embroidery Art Museum to learn Ningbo’s gold and silver color embroidery items for daily use and special occasions were on display, including a huge embroidery picture that took years to complete.