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Yu Chang Junior High School (2004 CyberFair Project ID 3367)
Taiwan,
Kaohsiung
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 5 student(s) from 14 to 15 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: The place we live, Kaohsiung, is located in southern Taiwan. Kaohsiung is blessed to have a harbor, which has the third largest container port. With a transportation network consisting of land, marine, and air systems, Kaohsiung has many advantages and has become a unique city. This city has been featuring as the chief center of the heavy industry and petrochemical industry, and thus, it used to be regarded as a desert without cultural activities. These years, our local government has been focusing on transforming Kaohsiung into an international city with emphases on not only the construction of this city, but also the promotion of citizens’ living quality. Many major projects, such as the Kaohsiung Mass Rapid Transit system, the Kaohsiung Multi-Functional Commerce & Trade Park, and the Pacific Regional Operation Center, are on the move. In addition, all kinds of activities of arts and culture are held for the sake of furthering the living standard and maintaining the cultural heritage. The Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, with its abundant collections and various displays, has played an important role to provide the public in southern Taiwan the chance to experience the beauty of different cultures. Kaohsiung is no more just an industrial city. It is a beautiful city with a glorious past and a promising future.
Our school is in Nan-tzu District, where there are many public facilities, such as Kaohsiung University, Nan-tzu Library and Mentropolitan Park, the largest park in Kaohsiung. There are also many temples in this district, and therefore, there are many folklore activities and religious ones. It is a place combining both tradition and modernization.
In coordination with the educational revolution in Taiwan, which emphasizes the ways for the students to discover their aptitude and to provide them with opportunities to develop their potential, our school holds all kinds of extra activities for our students. Print, so-called engraving, is one of the important tasks that we teach our students in the classes.
Project Description: Folk prints, which have been extensively used for decoration during the Chinese holidays and religious activities, played a very important role in the traditional society of the previous time in Taiwan. The traditional folk prints reflect people’s desire for peace, felicity and wealth, and therefore most of them comprise designs with the meaning of good luck. People deeply feel confident that these folk prints will bring them a propitious life. Folk print is not merely an old-fashioned art. Similar productions from the printmaking techniques can be seen here and there, such as bills, newspapers, and posters. We are now in such an environment full of prints.
In our web pages, we completely introduce the information and techniques about folk prints. Our viewers will easily understand what folk prints are, and meanwhile can get the idea of how to appreciate all kinds of folk prints. Besides, we have interviews with four experts and creators of folk prints. The conversation between us is so wonderful that our viewers shouldn’t miss it. They share with us their experience and precious collections, and some of them are unique and first seen in the public. With their permission, we are able to put the precious works in our pages. The main purpose of our research is to make some endeavor for the preservation of the traditional culture and to provide the opportunity for all the people in the world to go into the world of folk prints.