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Tainan Municipal Jhongyi Elementary School (2018 CyberFair Project ID 8336)
Taiwan, Tainan City
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 1. Local Leaders

We estimate 10 student(s) from 10 to 12 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: "Tainan is a place for people to dream, work, love, get married, and spend leisure time."- Ye Shitao. Tainan is the oldest city in Taiwan. With its time-honor 300-year history, the city is well woven into the fabric of rich culture and interesting anecdotes. Details hidden inside the corners of streets, they yield the footprints left behind by ancestors as well as those precious, little stories being passed down generation by generation. A Temple in 3 Steps And A God within 5 Strides Owingto unique geographic backgrounds, Tainan was the financial hub of Taiwan in earlier times, harboring many cargo ships. Ever since being colonized by the Dutch, it set up a base for Tainan’s multicultural mix and then impacted the religions and customs from crowds of diversity here.Rituals And Prayers for Well-Being Is Characteristic of Local Customs In Tainan Tainan, “the Cultural Capital”, is pretty full of temples and ceremonies of variety and excitement. Old Restaurants of Gourmet Snacking Used to Be Like Mobil Museums of Delicacies Gourmet snacking in Tainan is originated from where people crowdedly got together, like streets around temples, night markets, and so on. In earlier days, those foods were sold by peddlers or with stalls on streets while nowadays most of them are transformed into major historical restaurants famous for gourmet snacking. Do not hesitate to come taste those Iconic gourmet snacking and to go on a journey rich of culture, culinary, and history of Tainan.

Project Description: Glory Embroidery makes Glory-the Grandmaster of embroidery in Tainan, Mr. Lin Yu- Chian

Our School (Jhongyi Elementary School) is in the West Central Dist of Tainan,and the West Central Dist of Tainan is the is the cultural place of traditional skills. There are three major shopping districts, four major cultural parks and 63 historic sites and historical buildings in Tainan.All kinds of folk activities, traditional crafts, old houses, cultural and other cultural performances are booming.

Tainan is the earliest birthplace of embroidery in Taiwan, and embroidery is one of the most distinctive traditional crafts in Tainan. Mr. Lin Yu- Chian had founded the city with glorious Embroidery, with a high degree of popularity in Taiwan's traditional process. National treasure class "the Grandmaster of embroidery " Mr. Lin Yu- Chian , devoted his life to promoting the beauty of embroidery, but also try to save the intangible cultural assets, in the cultural sector can not be ignored. In recent years, even more private teaching, deeply loved by the students,Mr. Lin Yu-Chian felt that the cultural process must continue, in order to be endless! Through cooperation with a large number of designers, so that the traditional silk interwoven new possibilities, so warm lines spread happiness in every home. Future; but also hopes to be able to embroider this happy, let the world see, see the most beautiful embroidery of Taiwan.

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