Doors to Diplomacy Participants

Taiping elementary school (2005 CyberFair Project ID 3559)
Taiwan, Chiayi
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 6. Historical Landmarks

We estimate 11 student(s) from 10 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: This is the only one street in our life at the mountains. It was named “Tai-Pin Old Street”. Why? Because it hidden many pasts and life of the ancient people. So we call it “old”. As same as the tea and the plums of Chayi, get older and get scented. As we must pass the 36 U-turns and we can widely overlook the Cha-Nan Plains. Go to the road No. 162 Cha, there are 36 U-turns for ten kilometers. And go up to the 1000 meters elevation. You could see a small plain which is Da-Pin, the old people named it. Bamboos, Syau-dz Path, Plum Blossom Path and Jwushoushan surround the Old Street which is the main place of the village people lived. It is not only the market of all kinds of economics but also the source of bad-guy from mountains. More than one hundred years ago, our ancient parents moved from Fu-Chyan and opened up this ground. Old Street is the most important center of the Tai-Pin's development. The people were attracted by the beautiful views and wanted to find out the special.

Project Description: There is an old short street that our house is on there (this old street) . It always hems around by the atmosphere of age-old and the noisy laughing of children. As time pass by, there were a lot of memories which belong to Dad and Mom, Grandpa and Grandma, and Great-grandparents. One day I will become the part of the old street. We grieve at the crystal time of the passed history. It is our good fortune that we can have this old street right now. This old street is changing by the time and we are growing and altering by ages. The old street and we are moving together. We followed the traces of the Human Being--- listen and interview with the very aged people. Imagine, make-up, frame, mold, bring up those pictures of memories. Happily sing and the imagine notes come from our mind. Maybe we desire to feel, to touch, to move on. Rebuild the hidden shapes, materials and the path of the ancient people. We hope to draw the outline of the street's history and rich the feeling of our hometown. At this moment, this old street is walking to us from the past. We try to catch its (shadow) through our hearts, eyes, hands, ears and mouths. Appreciated the tiny crack of the time's space, we get together at now. In fact, we gained the wisdom from the seniors how they treat the old street and the others- humans, things and events. In the other hand, we expect to condense/curdle/the sense to it. There are a lot of wisdom which tap out from the life. We start from our original mind. And try to represent the figure of the old street and deliver our deep love by actions. It seems like having a life and keeps on going. We wish to enrich and spread the deeply feeling of this small village.

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