CyberFair Project ID: 3172

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: Bi xia temple
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks
URL: http://gsh.taiwanschoolnet.org/gsh2004/3172/index.htm
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School: Li-sin elementary school
    ilan, ilan, Taiwan

9 students, ages 12-13 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 14, 2004. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): 2004

Classes and Teachers: Deck lin,Lin shuhui,Chuang yi fen

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Our School's Web Site: http://www.lses.ilc.edu.tw

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

I-Lan County is located in northeast area of Taiwan, facing eastward the immense Pacific Ocean, and separating northward, southward and westward by the Snow Mountains and the Central Mountains. From the ancient times, it had always been a dreaming pure land isolated from the external lands. The original name of I-Lan was Ge-Ma-Lan (also named as 'La-a-tan', means the shoals of oysters), which was transliterated from the aboriginals Ge-Ma-Lan people. After the common judge of Ching Dynasty, Wu Zhu-Fang, chose “the Eight Scenes of Lan-Yang” in I-Lan, later generations the Han people started to call this place the nickname, 'Lan-Yang.'

2. Summary of Our Project

'Bi Xia Temple' is also known as 'Yue-Wu-Mu-Wang Temple,' which is located in the Cheng-Huang (the city god) street in I-Lan County. This temple was built in the twenty second year of Guang-Xu of Ching Dynasty (also the year 1896 A.D.) and it has lasted for one hundred years up to today. The building of this temple was originated in the second year of Taiwan under Japanese colonization. At that time, many learned people in I-Lan had felt the shame of being reigned by foreigners and received an oracle by means of coseino mancy when they planned to go back to Mainland China, 'Need not return to hometown, it is of the first importance to exalt people’s senses of loyalty, filial piety and moral integrity in order to move and inspire their minds.' Therefore, with the scholar 'Yang-Shi-Fang' as the head, they constructed a temple for enshrining Yue-Fei and advocated his loyalty and filial piety to arouse countrymen’s patriotism. Then, in order to avoid Japanese’s notice, they circuitously nominated this temple as 'Bi Xia Temple' according to the meaning of the sentence---'Expecting the glory at dawn with bluish blood and loyal heart.' Hence, the original meaning of building Bi Xia Temple is not only to show people’s appreciation for respecting the deity, but also to spread out the ethnical significance of our ancestors’ faithful mind toward the fatherland.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:21-50%

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:1

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:4-6

E. Additional comments concerning your computer and/or Internet access (Optional):

Our school connects externally by adsl. There is one computer classroom that has 40 computers in our school. Every classroom has 1 computer,providing us the convenience to discuss,look up in convenience to discuss, look up information and print papers.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

We thought the biggest difficult problem is very difficult to find the time to be able all team members to manufacture the homepage together. Because our school student are not many, in addition moves are very many, frequently can have a team member to participate in three, four activities, does not have the means to work. Moreover a difficulty is between each other communication, our homepage as soon as starts everybody respectively to do each, simply did not know the others have made any. Frequently had him to look up Yue Fei's material, moreover a person also looked up the similar content, instead has wasted the very much time.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

So long as everybody works with concerted efforts, cooperates together, we certainly can obtain successfully.

6. How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

In this research, we have chosen the Bi xia temple for the research subject. It does not have to other traditional temples, the main sacrificial offering object is utterly loyal national hero Yue Fei for the Southern Song Dynasty which serves the country, is retains quite complete traditional the road pope temple. At the beginning of the research chooses the Bi xia temple to take the subject, mainly lies in its unique disciple system and the intense spiritual culture don't to other temple spirits,because Bi xia temple is the temple public figure is unwillingly ruled the Japanese, to 'the influence will of the people' the spirit to gather capital to construct. Everyone personally begins really to do, finds the problem, the ponder question. The affiliation from this the inferior special study opportunity, the student divides into the material group, the homepage group beautifully according to individual specialty and the interest, each other cooperation, mutually studies. The Yilan people, how could do not know the blue rosy cloud palace. The affiliation from this the special study, we understands the oneself hometown the thing, also hoped by way of the Internet not far not session of characteristic, lets Yue Fei's spirit spread over the world each quoin.

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Project Elements

1) What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?

Computer: manufacture homepage necessary tool. Digital camera: records dynamic active and the data. DV: photography picture as well as some Bi xia temple's cultural relics, data. Scanner:scans some pictures, data. Namo Webeditor: manufacture homepage software. Photo Impact: uses for to revise the picture Network: looks up data most convenient method Virtualdub: uses for the editing movie software

2) In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.

Each time visits in front of the Bi xia temple, beforehand penetrates the telebrief Bi xia temple narrator Mrs. You,comes for us to introduce the Bi xia temple.Mrs. You is a retired country young teacher, also is the Bi xia temple reverent disciple, besides the Bi xia temple, she also introduces Yilan each place for us the temple.

3) What has been the impact of your project on your community?

The affiliation from this research, the inhabitant which further lets in the community, understood the Bi xia temple does not have to its different traditional temple religion, thoroughly knew the Bi xia temple the history mark, simultaneously respects the appreciation local different temple the characteristic, lets in the community each member treasure in the community the unique cultural property. The penetration network not far not session of function, lets Yue Fei's spirit, spreads over the world each quoin.

4) How did your project involve other members of your community as helpers and volunteers?

Penetrates the telephone the relation, we obtain temple side committee director and familiar Bi xia temple history Mrs. Yu comply, we can go to the visit and visiting, in the visit process, we are curious regarding the Bi xia temple and the Yue Fei fact and felt has doubts place, all 11 proposing, inquired to Mrs. Yu, thoroughly introduces the explanation after Mrs. Yu, and the temple side committee provides the written material, lets our full understanding Bi xia temple and Yue Fei's many historical fact, thanks temple Director Fang and Mrs. Yu's assistance, lets we this research be able smooth carrying on.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

Penetrates this research, lets us know originally in ours community, some retains the quite complete road pope temple, passed through several to go to the visit, let us further realize to the native place tradition Taoism construction as well as the ancient cultural relic, as well as concerned some likenesses of a god or buddha the fable story, special disciple system, especially at sacrificial offering ceremony, although sacrificial offering procedure unusual edious, but the temple side still persisted the tradition, the goal was enabling Yue Fei's spirit to continue, enables the posterity all to imitate his great patriotic sentiment.

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