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Daan Elementary School (2006 CyberFair Project ID 4600)
Taiwan,
Taipei
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 18 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Promoting folk sports for over twenty years, the Taipei Municipal Da An Elementary School is the focus school for evolving and developing Taiwanese folk sports. Pupils participated in this project are all present members of the Da An Elementary School Folk Sports Team, both rope skipping and diabolo spinning kicking They obtain deep emotions to the folk sports, and from practicing rope skipping and diabolo spinning, they cultivate interest extending to other related activities of folk sports, and further intend to study folk sports. More importantly, Da An Elementary School has a long history of outstanding performance on folk sports, and thus would like to make efforts to integrate and to digitalize such rich local resources. In so doing, on the one hand, we may inherit the historical culture of Da An folk sports, and on the other hand, may promote such artistic cultural beauty of the folk sports to every corner of the world.
Project Description: Sports Blending with Art-The Folk Sports on Taiwan
In the past agricultural society in Taiwan, when the technology was underdeveloped, people treated the Chinese traditional folk Sports just like toys and games. Along the changes of social structure, the folk sports has moved from leisure activities toward artistic skills, then to performance, and eventually developed to aesthetics. In the past some thirty years, Taiwan has continuously promoted the folklore physical culture in all efforts. The Youth Folk Sports Group has visited various countries every year. It not only comforts the overseas Chinese, but also facilitates the international cultural exchange numerously. This project intends to record the process of the refinement of folk sports. By way of promoting the beauty of the folk physical culture, we expect to have mutual international interaction, and further to surge the new life of innovation, continuation, exploration, and development for the folklore arts.