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jeh ching Primary School (2003 CyberFair Project ID 2724)
Taiwan, Tapei,Taiwan
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms

We estimate 6 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Taiwan is a cultured island full of a great variety of traditional arts. However, many of these arts, such as the shadow puppet show, are evanescently lost as time goes by. We cannot image that once there were more than two hundred shadow puppet show troupes in the Kaohsiung area in the past. Today, there are only about six shadow puppet show troupes left in Taiwan; five in Kaohsiung County and the other one, named Hua-Zhou Yuan, in Taipei. Acutely, the shadow puppet show was originally invented in ancient China a thousand years ago and passed to Taiwan in the Ching dynasty. After many years evolution, the shadow puppet show in Taiwan has developed its own unique feature with special aroma different from that in Mainland China

Project Description: Although the shadow puppet show is one of the Chinese traditional arts, it is barely performed today and many people are not aware of what the show is. The shadow puppet show is a kind of fascinating fine performing art. One reason we want to study the shadow puppet show is that we would like to share the pleasure of the appreciation of this interesting and unique performance with people in the community, so that everyone has the chance to learn the beauty of this traditional folk art.

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