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Zunliao Elementary School Changhua County (2012 CyberFair Project ID 7087)
Taiwan,
Changhua
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 8 student(s) from 9 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Xizhou Township is located in the south of Changhua County, separated from Xiluo Township of Yunlin County to the south by Jhuoshuei River. Xiluo’s martial arts and lion dance performances are renowned throughout Taiwan, for instance Xiluo Qikan. Xiluo’s neighboring Xizhou Township also boasts a rich martial arts tradition, the Zunliao Community being no exception. Puhsuan Temple is the religious center of the Zunliao Community, also where Zunliao Community’s tradition of martial arts and lion dance originated. The Community masters inaugurated Zhen Xing She at Puhsuan Temple in order to teach martial arts and lion dance. According to the masters, this had been done in the past to protect people from harm, to prevent robbers and bandits from ravaging Zunliao Village; today, the two arts are both for strengthening the body, and carrying on ancestral heritage. As members of Zunliao, we are all obligated to learn the arts in hopes of carrying forward our legacies far into the future, and at the same time to innovate these practices so that they remain up-to-date and relevant.
Project Description: Traditional lion dances are performed in out community, aside from which community masters teach the art to students at our school, so that students may perform lion dance in the community festivities as well. This year, the Xizhou Township Office collaborated with the Yunlin County Xiluo Township Office to hold the Xiluo Culture Festival street parade, Township officials invited three outstanding artists from the Tainan National University of the Arts to teach students how to make modern lion headpieces, utilizing recycled materials, and modern lion dance costumes. The resonance and reverberations resulting from this cocktail of traditional Taiwanese and Samba was so inspiring, we are anxious to take the opportunity afforded by this project to further integrate these different components, and to create an entirely new style of lion dance specific to the Zunliao Community.