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Yu Da High School of commerce and home economics (2014 CyberFair Project ID 7839)
Taiwan, Taipei
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms

We estimate 10 student(s) from 16 to 17 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: The origin of Budai puppet can be traced back to the temple celebration in the earlier Taiwan society. Due to the June-Shong Huang’s leading and efforts, the Budai puppet can run a show in TV, which transformed into a popular art form. We live in the most economically prosperous metropolis of Taipei area, which means that we are take on the responsibility to pass the tradition of folk art of Budai puppet. Thus, the place we had field research and interview is Puppetry Art Centre of Taipei, which housed a glove puppet collection of puppets and staging props from various districts. Of course, it included, glove puppet, the art form we like to introduce. In Puppetry Art Centre of Taipei, we learned a lot of related knowledge of puppet. Taipei is the hub of the cultural events, including Min-Nan, Hakak, Mainland culture. At the same time, Taipei indeed is the nurturing place of culture and arts. For this reason, it plays a vital role in the propaganda of traditional culture.

Project Description: Traditional glove puppet is gradually replaced by Pi-Li glove puppet. Glove puppet is thrown into oblivion by society with speedy development of civilization. We, a group of vocational high school students picked this topic for this reason to make glove puppet know to more people for its sustainable existence for generation and generation. In the part of back ground music, we used to add special effect and Vinyl Disc; however, in the modern day we are now, we use DVD to accomplish this part. For example: The post-production music dubbing in Taipei is played by an orchestration behind the curtain and dub align with the drama played on the stage. With historically richness and the traditional culture of glove puppet, we hope that we can make a web site based on this research project to promote the culture of glove puppet and have deeper exploration of it with our excellence in website making. In this way , this beautiful culture of glove puppet can be passed on from generation to generation.

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