Doors to Diplomacy Participants

Sanjhih Elementary School (2005 CyberFair Project ID 4007)
Taiwan, Taipei county
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 3. Business and Community Organizations

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

Description of Our Community: San-zhi village is located at the northwest of Taiwan, the northwest of Datun volcanos, next to Taiwan Strait; it is a beautiful village which faces the mountains and the sea, and it’s been a great tourism place for the residents in Taipei county due to the convenient communications. Because of its great geography and communications, San-zhi village is always the favor to the people who care about funerals and the locations of graves. Many public, private cinerary-casket pagodas and graveyards kept being built in the village; currently there’re five graveyards and three cinerary-casket pagodas, where are the important places that allow the residents in the north of Taiwan to express their respects to the gone families.

Project Description: There’s a special kind of industry in San-zhi village; we would like to know more about the native environments and local industry via this case study project in order to understand the current funeral industry in Taiwan. This project can allow us to think over the questions about life and death, and let us face the life with active, positive attitudes. Our research methods include data collection, interviews with figures, visits to cinerary-casket pagodas, and investigation on the neighbors; we collect opinions of residents in the village on this industry, which increase our knowledge and reinforce our recognition of the home town after the discussion and thinking among the teams.

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