Rather than its area, its resources or its population, a region has its own cultural value mainly on its significant position of culture. Culture, as the core of humanistic geography, is a silhouette of history and sediment of time. 

Macao is the earliest center for cultural exchange between China and the West, and has its considerable yet unique value in cultural geography as well as profound and lasting influence. From such a center as Macao, the Chinese cultural circle integration in the macroscopic perspective as well as cultural exchange between China and the West is throughout the whole process of the global modernization. This process was praised by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a German philosopher of enlightenment, as “Enlightenment for Each Other”. In today’s process of constructing a cultural power in China, people of Chinese literature and arts gathered in Macao, an advantageous region in Chinese culture, to conduct a bold exchange of human civilization, which also bears a big cultural significance. In this view, by choosing Macao as the venue for the 3rd Chinese Art Forum of Mainland, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, CFLAC fully acknowledge and highlight its position and function in local culture. In Macao’s culture, the common development and integration of multiple factors symbolize the Chinese cultural achievement shared by Chinese all over the world. 

Moreover, we will narrate to you other legends such as Chunliu (Spring Willow) Society’s drama learning from Japan, Madame Bai Shuxiang’s learning ballet in the Soviet Union, porcelain culture from ancient China to Europe and so on. Thanks to such enlightenment for each other in those stories, Chinese culture is now enjoying colorful prosperity.