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Lukang junior high school (2014 CyberFair Project ID 7817)
Taiwan, Changhua
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms

We estimate 20 student(s) from 12 to 15 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Lukang is located at the midpoint of the west coast of Taiwan and is the closest city to Mainland China from Taiwan, so it was naturally developed to a prosperous city of commercial port. Between 1785 and 1845, Lukang was in its heyday. Later, it quickly declined due to the sediments in the port. Therefore, many old architectures and valuable cultural and artistic assets were kept. It became a famous cultural and tourist city for its unique and fascination in historical sites, temples, crafts, foods, and literature art.

Project Description: Calligraphic art is an important part of Chinese culture. Due to the rapid development of writing tools and extensive use of computer peripheral products, the calligraphic art is increasingly neglected. The younger generation is neither interested in learning calligraphic art nor knowing how to appreciate it. Lukang has the reputation as a calligraphic town all the time. Due to the profound foundation of culture and arts for 400 years, it pays attention on calligraphic education, and quite a few people are learning calligraphy. Therefore, we decided to use the unique strengths in local culture to introduce calligraphic art, which involves living aesthetics of the local life, and present its beauty in many ways, such as Spring Festival couplets that every household posts for Chinese New Year, horizontal inscribed boards hung on the walls at temples and stores, and the unique calligraphic signboards advertised on Zhongshan Road in Lukang.

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