Doors to Diplomacy Participants

Fengbin primary school (2004 CyberFair Project ID 3377)
Taiwan, Hualian county
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms

We estimate 31 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: According to the legends of Ami Tribe, long time ago, a group of southern islanders lost their way in the sea. Only a brother and a sister survived the ordeal when they finally drifted to Taiwan’s east coast. In this beautiful paradise, they built a family that became the ancestors of today’s Ami Tribe, the most dominant tribe among all on eastern Taiwan. The place we call Fongbin today used to be called Maogong. We will use our wisdom to renew and enrich the heritage from our ancestors. We will be a part of the new Maogong’s legend.

Project Description: The most representative activity in Ami’s traditional ceremony is “The Harvest Festival”. However, the traditional ceremony has lost its original sense, due to the influence from the imported culture. People tend to have a false impression that it is merely a ceremony of drinking and dancing. Even the young Amis are unable to identify themselves with the precious tradition. Thus, the cyber fair provides us an opportunity to go deep into the tribe, interview the chief and elder, and discover the real meaning of the harvest festival. Then bringing the tradition back to school and retain our own Ami culture.

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