CyberFair Project ID: 7991

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International Schools CyberFair Project Narrative
Title: Longzhou Shehuo(Festival Entertainment)
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
URL: http://sx83cy15.edu.17888.com
Bibliography: http://sx83cy15.edu.17888.com/module/a0011/more.php?pkey=81430&classID=15867&intModulePK=A0001_9&PageSize=10

School: Longxian vacational education center
    baoji, N/A - Does Not Apply, China

6 students, ages 16-17 worked together to complete this CyberFair project on March 4, 2015. They have participated in CyberFair in the following year(s): none

Classes and Teachers: Wang yuzhu,He linke,Yang fan

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Our School's Web Site: http://

Project Overview

1. Description of Our Community

Longxian is located in a mountainous county in the western end of Shaanxi. It was famous as Shehuo of longzhou since ancient times. After the founding of new China, Longzhou Shehuo performances are unprecedented, and there are 300 Shehuo organizations in more than 200 administrative villages in Longxian. The scale is larger and larger, content is richer and more colorful, performances are more exquisite and moving, and it has retained the original ancient dress form. Longxian people used to say 'small spring festival, big Lantern Festival'. In Lantern Festival Every year in Longxian, the Shehuo play contest made each country Shehuo performing team scales are larger and larger, the contents are more and more colorful, the adjustment of rural industrial structure promotion and technology about rural economic development production and living content are also increased, Through playing and watching Shehuo to tell harvest joy, pray for the harvest, favorable weather, peace and prosperity in coming year.

2. Summary of Our Project

Shehuo is a play for festivals. Its origin is that the Han people gradually add other square entertainments in Ceres activities. At the beginning, people called Shehuo as shehu, as one of the Han nationality folk sacrifice activity, it was gradually evolved into the spring festive entertainment. Longxian Shehuo originates from Song , Yuan dynasties. flourishing in Ming, Qing dynasties, and revival after the establishment of China. Through following reform on the century 80 and 90 times, Longxian Shehuo has now developed into a fixed facial makeup, costumes, props and acting time of the masses of the Han folk culture and arts and entertainment activities.

During the Spring Festival, people from village, factory and unit plays Shehuo. In Lantern Festival Every year in Longxian, the Shehuo play ,including more than 200 performance teams and four or five thousand role players, assembled in county. The streets and lanes were all decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the place reechoed with the sound of gongs and drums, attracting tens of thousands of viewers and visitors, and become one big landscape.

3. Our Computer and Internet Access

A. Percentage of students using the Internet at home:less than 20

B. Number of workstations with Internet access in the classroom:4-6

C. Connection speed used in the classroom:dedicated connection

D. Number of years our classroom has been connected to the Internet:more than 6

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

Our school is a vocational school.4 computer classrooms were built for education. The internet Speed at school is 10-megabit internet transmission, campus network was built. It is convenient to conduct discussions, data search, and print out documents in school.

4. Problems We Had To Overcome

This is our first time to participate in the Webfare, we are very confused what to do and what kind of theme should be chosen. Thanks to the guidance of my teacher Li, let us think of the local folk art, we thought Longxian painted face at first, so we mobilized the students to collect some information, but we do not know how to make Webpage and carry out some related activities. We held a meeting once again when we were confused, some students put forward that we can do webpage about Shehuo, so we turned to the Longxian Shehuo information collection, celebrity visits, publicity materials manufacture and so on. We met a lot of troubles when we visited the folk artists, because of the economic tide, a lot of people have left home to go out to make a living, the older generation of artists are few, so it brought a lot of difficulties for our interview. On the other hand, it is our first time to participate in webfare, so we have no experience, the information about Shehuo show and painting is few, missed the Shehuo parade performance time, students were not able to experience the Shehuo parade performance, this is our regret.

5. Our Project Sound Bite

In this Webpage making competition, in order to show the Longzhou Shehuo art to more people, we visited old artist Yuan Jin, Yao Yuquan, and asked them to explain the Longzhou Shehuo to students, and guided students to learn to draw facial make-up. In school leadership support, the old artist painted face walked into our classroom, made our students understand the essence of Longzhou Shehuo. At the same time, through our interview, in the process of its development, with the leaving of older generation, some parts of Longzhou Shehuo have been nearly lost. In the peak period of Shehuo, step Shehuo has its own melody and tunes, but now the leaving things are only performing pantomime. So that most of the people always thought that Longzhou Shehuo is always showed as a pantomime form, anyway, Longzhou Shehuo ceremony included a part of the tunes, but with the old artist's death, nobody can sing song. It was a pity that we could not find the old artists who can sing songs.

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

Through visits to Shehuo, we have a more profound understanding for the Shehuo in our county. We hope to stimulate students' love for traditional culture through taking part in the activities, make the traditional culture into the classroom, I hope more students can act as Shehuo ambassador, trying to publicize Longzhou Shehuo, personally feel 'Shehuo' forms of art, so that folk art can be inherited. Students can apply modern high-tech to make the forms of Shehuo, make-up, song and spectrum can be preserved. Our descendants will see unusual simplicity and the beauty of nature one day which are created by ancestors in Longzhou.

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Project Elements

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

Hardware:computer, digital camera Software:Dreamweaver \Photoshop \Microsoft Word\Internet Explorer \ACDSee\CuteFtp

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

In the group meeting, the teacher assigned collection data, publicity materials and visiting task to us. In the visiting and promotion process, some of our students were responsible for the camera, some were responsible for recording and some were responsible for interview. The teacher appointed folk artists by telephone, and these old artists gave us a lot of help when they knew we were coming. In the process of Shehuo propaganda, under the guidance of teachers, we went to the countryside farm, although it was very hard. The farmers liked our publicity material and our research program very much, and gave us some valuable suggestions.

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

Through the project research, we knew more about Longzhou Shehuo. The students took part in the webfare actively, and through the Shehuo culture into the campus, into the classroom activities, let more students understand Longzhou Shehuo, even like this kind of art. It played a certain role for inheriting and carrying forward Longzhou Shehuo culture.

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

We benefit a lot through taking part in webfare, in order to show the Longzhou Shehuo art to more people, we visited Yuan Jin, Yao Yuquan, and asked them to explain the Longzhou Shehuo to students, and guided students to learn to draw facial make-up. In the vigorously support of the leadership, the facial make-up of old artist walked into our classroom, made our students understand more about Longzhou Shehuo.

5) Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises (Optional)

At the same time, through our interview, in the process of its development, with the leaving of older generation, some parts of Longzhou Shehuo have been nearly lost. In the peak period of Shehuo, step Shehuo has its own melody and tunes, but now the leaving things are only performing pantomime. So that most of the people always thought that Longzhou Shehuo is always showed as a pantomime form, anyway, Longzhou Shehuo ceremony included a part of the tunes, but with the old artist's death, nobody can sing song. It was a pity that we could not find the old artists who can sing songs. With the changes of the times, more and more folk arts will be disappeared from our life. We sincerely hope that through our this activity, more and more young people will pay attention to Longzhou Shehuo, support and develop Longzhou Shehuo, make Longzhou folk treasures being preserved better.

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