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YuDa High School of Commerce and Home Economics (2011 CyberFair Project ID 6616)
Taiwan,
Taipei
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 5 student(s) from 16 to 17 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Taiwan is a place full of rich multi-cultural atmosphere. Regional traditional arts affect people’s life significantly, but for those of us young people from northern Taiwan, how much we understand the local arts and culture? Sanchung City located at the west bank of Tamsui River, in the center of Taipei Basin and is very convenient in north-south transportation. It is near to the prosperous Wanhua and Tataocheng just across the water. Due to its excellent location, Sanchung City becomes Taiwan's largest city of migrants. In 1969, Mr. Shieh Dong Min, the governor at the time called for "living-room factories," a small factories sprang up between the roadway in the neighborhood, and gradually propped up half the sky of the industrial machinery parts. "Black hands start from scratch", Sanchung City shines gradually and becomes the most spectacular pearl in Tamsui River. The "Chieh Shou Plaza" which represents informative and modern fashion located at Sanchung City’s San Ho Road Section 3 and Long Men Road intersection. With coming and going of the crowd it always has an endless stream of great excitement. Taiwan’s only remaining hand-made ink factory - "DU Company" hides behind Sanchong City across the alley of Chieh Shou Plaza. Due to the insistence and innovation of Master Chen Jia De gradually he laid the hand-ink the status of national treasure.
Project Description: Paper, pens, ink, ink stone are known as the "four treasures." The four stationeries accompany the growth of Chinese culture for thousands of years of history. Amongst them, the ink has made undeniable contributions to the development of Chinese culture, communication, as well as the promotion of world civilization, In history we have numerous well-known ink experts, leaving tens of thousands pieces of work. These are treasures of Chinese culture. The Northern Song Dynasty poet Li Qing Zhao’s father Li Ge Fei wrote "Broken Ink Addiction" shown scholar’s obsession to the ink.
With the changing times, today, we use the stationery mainly for convenience, and mostly pen, ink, correction fluid, and pencil cases and other stationery are used. Long history of Chinese ink, however, follows rapidly changes with the times and progress, this unique traditional art of ink has been gradually dying out. Currently the only master of this traditional technique leaving is described as "national treasures ink master" – Master Chen Jia De.
After finished primary school, Master Chen Jia De made a living from Chiayi to Taipei alone. He followed a mainland master to learn how to make inks. He was gradual interested in inks. He slowly learned bit by bit, and slowly accumulated experience, which laid the foundation of his master handmade ink work. Master Chen Jia De even won the tenth Global Culture Art Award in 2003!
DU Company’s development and evolution and Master Chen Jia De’s insistence on handmade ink, have shown the real Taiwanese spirit, so we hope to feature in this study, to have a in-depth understanding of the connotation of handmade ink, and to experience Master Chen Jia De’s insistence and innovation on traditional skills, so that the authentic traditional art skill will merge into the lives of the people of Taiwan, and flourish at home and abroad.