Brad Pitt was in Shanghai recently to promote his upcoming movie "Allied." He live-streamed his trip to Yu Garden, a famous tourist attraction in the metropolis, where he watched a traditional kung fu tea ceremony and tried it out himself. He later learned Chinese calligraphy there, too.
Brad Pitt learns Chinese calligraphy during a movie promotion trip in Shanghai.
In addition to traditional Chinese culture, Chinese cuisine has also proved irresistible to a number of Hollywood stars.
Scarlett Johansson has a Chinese nickname "Tangbao" or soup dumpling, as she once told Chinese media that she had burned her tongue when she ate soup dumplings in China for the first time in 2011. She said she tried and loved hotpot when she was in Beijing promoting her movie "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" in 2014.
Director Luc Besson is on set with Scarlett Johansson in Taipei in 2014.
Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield ride bicycles around the Palace Museum in Beijing while promoting the movie "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" in 2014.
Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard ride a tricycle in a hutong, or a traditional narrow alley, while promoting the movie "Jurassic World" in Beijing in 2015.
Tom Hiddleston posted selfies of climbing the Great Wall when he was in China promoting the movie "Thor: The Dark World" in 2013.
There is a saying about China's Great Wall: "He who has never been to the Great Wall is not a true man." Some actors and actresses have proved themselves "true men/women" when they visited China.
Hugh Jackman said he went immediately to the Great Wall when he arrived in Beijing in 2013 to promote his movie "The Wolverine."
Jennifer Lawrence visits the Great Wall despite the dense smog in 2015.
Robert Downey Jr. was given a larger-than-usual tanghulu, a traditional Chinese snack of candied fruit, when he was promoting his movie "Iron Man 3" in Beijing in 2013. He was apparently bemused by the tangy snack.
Johnny Depp was given an abacus, which the Chinese organizers said was a "super computer" in ancient China, when he was promoting the movie "Transcendence" featuring a sentient computer in 2014. Depp said he could use the abacus as a guitar.
Leonardo DiCaprio was given an Oscar-like statuette present made of numerous golden roses when he was promoting his academy-winning movie "The Revenant" in Beijing earlier this year. His Chinese fans said the present might have caused him trypophobia.
Source: china.org
