Foshan is also the hometown of martial arts. It is the hometown of Bruce Lee, Ye Wen and Huang Feihong.

The Department of Chinese Language and Literature, founded in 1958, is one of the earliest departments in our university. There are 34 full-time teachers, including 12 professors and 13 associate professors. Among them, there are 19 doctoral teachers and 15 master supervisors. The age structure, professional title structure and academic relationship structure of the teaching staff are reasonable, and the development trend is good. In the past five years, he has presided over 2 national social science funds, 2 key

sub-projects of national social science funds, 4 scientific research projects of the State Language Commission, 6 social science funds of the Ministry of Education,and more than 10 provincial social science funds. It has two provincial research bases of humanities and social sciences: Guangfu Cultural Research Base of Guangdong Province and Intangible cultural Heritage Research Base of Guangdong Province. Three provincial-level education and teaching practice bases: Guangdong University Student Practice and teaching Base, Guangdong Provincial Model teacher Education Base, And Guangdong Provincial Model Base for Joint Training of Graduate Students; A social science popularization base in Guangdong Province and a research station of Chinese Dialect Research Center of Jinan University. The Chinese Department undertakes teaching Chinese as a foreign language courses all the year round, including Oral Chinese, Chinese listening, Chinese reading and writing, poetry recitation, calligraphy copying, etc., with a mature curriculum system and rich teaching experience, the department enjoys a good reputation among international students .
As the only official language of China, Chinese, with its long history of development and rich cultural connotation, has attracted more and more foreign friends’ attention and love. Foshan University has many years of experience in Chinese language training, college of international exchange, according to different characteristics and needs of the students, the careful design of martial arts teaching the Chinese language and Chinese traditional curriculum plan, set up multi-level training module, and according to their own advantages, in the Chinese teaching at the same time, also opened the martial arts culture, calligraphy and language practice course, aims to promote Chinese language and Chinese martial arts culture to the world. Chinese and Traditional Chinese martial arts (Wing Chun, Tai Chi), Chinese and Kung Fu massage training courses.