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Yu Chang Junior High School (2005 CyberFair Project ID 3904)
Taiwan,
Kaohsiung
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 6 student(s) from 13 to 14 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Kaoshiung is located in southern Taiwan. Kaohsiung, an important industrial city in Taiwan, used to be regarded as a place without cultural activities. Recently, the government of Kaohsiung City has gotten not only all kinds of constructions but also different kinds of cultural activities moving. With a whole new urban landscape, Kaohsiung is now a beautiful city with dynamic cultural activities. Not all the cultural activities are from other countries. Most of them are about our local native ones. Festivals or programs possessing local or native characteristics enrich the cultural activities in Kaohsiung. And of course such activities let the citizens get the chance to get more familiar with the place they live in.
Project Description: Gourd, a kind of plant, is of a great variety. A long time ago before the material "plastic" was found, gourd was greatly used in people's daily life almost around the world. It was used as a tool, an utensil or an appliance. Later, it was used as a crafting material. People crafted it into a decoration. In Taiwan, there are several gourd artists devoting themselves to this kind of art -- gourd crafts. Combining Taiwanese cultural characteristics with their art works, they have developed an unique and charming style of gourd crafts. Mr. Gong Yi-fang, who is respected as the great master of gourd crafts in Taiwan, Mr. Chang Jia-nong, and Mr. Chen Ji-lu are especially regarded as the most important and influential artitst in Taiwan. They have developed at least twenty techniques for the past twenty years. And most of the techniques are unique in the world. Through interviewing with all of them, our research will introduce the gourd crafts in Taiwan in detail about not only this kind of art form but also the achievement and efforts from those artist in Taiwan.