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Lu Chiang Elementary School (2010 CyberFair Project ID 6312)
Taiwan,
Taipei county
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 10 student(s) from 11 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Luchou City is a place which values the folk and traditional customs and beliefs. There are numerous temples in the city which are the spiritual sustenance of the residents in the city. In recent years, the convenient traffic has facilitated the rapid development of Luchou. A lot of skyscrapers have been built one by one and the external population has immigrated here year by year to settle down, which makes the traditional art, paper art, trapped in the gap between the tradition and the modern times. People are dismayed by its decline. It was hoped that our research could arouse people’s attention to this valuable folk and traditional art.
Project Description: Paper art, also known as paper-pasting art, is often used in funerals, Buddhist ceremonies, Taoist putu rites, and Jiao ceremony. It has also become a rarely seen folk art due to the gradual decline of the demand of people. The major materials of paper art are paper and makino bamboo, and the major tools are firewood choppers and sickles. The main techniques include chopping the bamboo, setting up the bamboo framework, cutting paper, pasting paper, paper carving, and writing couplets. The currently exhibiting paper art shop in the city is located on Chunghsiao Road and it has been in existence for more than three decades. Baohe Temple: it was founded in 1900. The split spirit of Baosheng Emperor was enshrined in Luchou and thus the temple named “Baohe Temple” was built with the sponsorship of seven neighborhood alliances, Loutsaicu, Shuinan, Sichian, Tudigong, Sanchungpi, Bali, and Luntseding. Every March 15 on lunar calendar, the birthday of Baosheng Emperor, the boar competition will be hosted by the seven neighborhood alliances. It is one of the most popular temples in Luchou, Bali, Wugu, and Sanchung. The paper art studied was used in the one-hundred-year anniversary Jiao ceremony and all the works were created by Master Yeh in the Chunghsiao shop, which enabled us to have an opportunity to understand the meaning and use of paper art for Jiao ceremony.