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Jian-Ching elementary school (2014 CyberFair Project ID 7734)
Taiwan,
Taiwan,
Wangrong Township
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 5 student(s) from 10 to 12 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Jiancing Village is located in the center of Wanrung, Hualien County, with Silin Village in the north, Wanrung Village in the south, Nanping Village, Fenglin Township in the east, and Central Mountain Range in the west. Jiancing Village is the smallest village in the township where residents are unsophisticated and hospitable. Approximately more than 90% of the residents in the village are Truku people. The Truku people are now highly populated in Sioulin Township and Wanrung Township in Hualien County, and a few of them reside in other villages, Lishan Village in Chuosi Township and three villages in Jian Township – Chingfeng, Nanhua, and Fusing. In terms of the labor structure in Jiancing Community, most of the residents engage in agricultural, industrial, and service industries. There is no specific industrial operation in the community, and the labor forces have to look for working opportunities outside the community. As a result, the family functions in the community are incomplete, resulting in many educational problems and the population’s sense of loss. Therefore, the role and status of our school are particularly important. In addition to taking into account the physical and psychological development of children in the community, our school should also attach importance to the thematic courses of local culture and cooperate with private and government units, in order to systemically preserve the culture of Truku people. Our school established a cultural club to explore and investigate the culture, and the research projects of many themes have been completed and published, including Truku weaving, Truku rituals, Truku hunting, and Truku facial tattoo. Our school instructs students in basic academic abilities through education process, which also enables them to indirectly obtain abundant cultural intelligence.
Project Description: The special topic is to introduce Truku traditional music and dance. Through the sharing of the interviewers and by words and images to record Truku traditional music and dance, in order to continue Truku culture. The types of Truku traditional music include ancient tune, folk custom and casual. Truku traditional instruments consist of tatuk, lubug,pgagu and ubug spat qnawal. Generally speaking, a song and lyrics are not treated separately in the music of the indigenous people. So when the elders of the Truku tribe instruct the young people in singing, the melody and the words are always taught together, rather than practicing one first and then adding the other. Traditionally, Truku dance is dominated by the female members of the tribe. The women’s dances are a relaxed, spontaneous affair. The participants are humming improvised melodies as they slowly gather momentum, performing in an impromptu fashion. Male dancers may also be involved, but the male steps are much less complex, featuring only simple back and forth or side to side moves. The male performance mostly serves just as an accompaniment to the women’s dance. The theme is to study Truku traditional music and dance in our school this year. People can gain more knowledge about the traditional Truku music and dance by internal trainings and interview aboriginals. Also, videos and messages have been uploaded to Internet and can be viewed by people around the world in any minute. In the long run, more and more people could acquaint with Truku rich cultural connotations by inheritance, respect, education and emotions.