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Jhongjheng Elementary School (2004 CyberFair Project ID 3343)
Taiwan,
Chiayi County
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 1. Local Leaders
We estimate 5 student(s) from 11 to 13 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Our community is in Jhongpu Village, Chiayi County. Chiayi County is located in Central Southern Taiwan which is a country in a key position in Asia Pacific. The location of our community is on the way from Chiayi downtown to Mt. Ali where the mainly residents used to be aborigines. Thus, our community was the important central area for the contact of the aboriginals and the local people. This is a typical agriculture village which agricultural products includes betel nuts, oranges, and grapefruits. There is a famous landmark in our community--- Wu Hoe Temple, an ancestral temple in memory of Wu Hoe. Our school is close to this temple.? from other places also having the Tropic of Cancer runs through them. In those places, most of them have either desserts or semi-desserts, while Taiwan has forests as a result of the abundant rainfall brought by the trade wind and airstreams.
Project Description: Wu Hoe’s story is well-known to Taiwanese people, not only because it used to be one of the lessons of mandarin textbooks, but also Wu Hoe Temple is the reminder to visitors. Our school is near Wu Hoe Temple, it’s on the main road of this area. So it’s part of our community and part of our life as well. Wu Hoe was a famous hero in Taiwan’s history. The moral of his story is that Wu Hoe sacrificed himself to reform the aborigines and to change their bad habit of killing people and offering them as sacrifices. Because the legend and the heroic story of Wu Hoe make us believe it a true story, we never doubt the fact of it. However, we considered that it’s important to know our community more, especially the historical part. We then decided to research on Wu Hoe because he’s a famous hero here. During the period of collecting the information and interviewing the people who knows the story well, we found out that there are several different viewpoints about the story. Some people keep the point that it is a real story. Some people said Wu Feng existed but the story was a fiction. And other people considered the fact is totally different from the original one described in the textbook. We are surprised about the survey, so we worked on these different points about Wu Hoe’s story and did the project with the objective attitude.