Rosa Zee has been dedicated her time on promoting the Chinese Culture for years. Currently she spent two months each year to study the Traditional Chinese Floral Arranging in Taiwan.
What is Traditional Chinese Floral Arranging? This is a new knowledge not only to the Americans in general but also to the people who were born and raised in Taiwan or China such as herself.
Chinese flower arrangement had begun during Northern and Southern Dynasties when Buddhism Spread into China, bringing its custom of offering flowers at temple altars. By the Five Dynasties (907-960 A.D.) Emperor Li Hou Zhu had made the floral art an imperial affair by holding an annual flower arrangement exhibition at his palace. The Song Dynasty (960-1279 A.D.) with its literati paintings, was the flourish of literati flower arrangement. By the time of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.), the art was practiced widely amongst the populace, used in homes and during special festive occasions.
The life of the traditional floral arranging took a turn when the last stage of the Qing Dynasty had a great admiration to the western arts. And the recent one hundred years of un-stability of the Chinese Governments. These two major reasons cost the arts of the floral arranging extincted. Either mainland China or Taiwan were able to maintain the knowledge of such arts. Not until 30 years ago, a group of high ranking official's wives, in Taiwan, commissioned the staff of the Nation History Museum to research the possibility of recovering the knowledge. Through the historical documents and paintings, the Traditional Chinese Floral Arts was revived.
Rosa Zee's Bio: Master Degree in Liberal Arts
California Teaching Credential – in Multiple Subjects
San Marino Unified School District Board Member in '93-'97
Pacific Asian Museum – Director of Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator in '97-'04
Author of the “The Roads to Success for the New Chinese- American Generation”- Published in Taiwan, Sept. 2008
Licensed instructor and member of the Chinese Floral Arts Foundation
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