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Nanzhai Junior Middle School (2018 CyberFair Project ID 8354)
China, Shaanxi, Bao ji
Official Status: Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 4. Local Specialties

We estimate 4 student(s) from 13 to 15 will work on this entry.

Description of Our Community: Qianyang county is locate at the western of Shaanxi, a loess hilly and gully region. Total county covers the area of 996.46 square kilometers, has 7 townships and 97 administrative villages with about 134,000 people, of which 111,000 people are farmers. Qianyang County develops fruit-tree and vegetable planting, has a 4600 mu of the Asia's biggest base of apple nursery stock; the biggest sample base farm in the country that plantations are intensively managed. Carrot , corn, milk powder and apple abtain Golden Prize in China. Seven production bases are identified as a pollution-free agricultural production base. Qianyang is the mother land of Yanji who is one of Confucius's 72 pupils; Zhi Guoqin who is a prime minister in West-Han Dynasty; and Duan Xiushi who is an official in Tang Dynasty, known to history as "Three sages in Qianyang". Qianhu wetland, a heaven of regimen, is the sole national wetland in Shaanxi. Shaanxi Lianhuashan hunting grounds is a garden for hunting with a beautiful scenery.

Project Description: We interviewed embroidery ladies and studied of Qianyang embroidery characteristic and development to get to know Qianyang embroidery better. Qianyang embroidery is a folk art handed down from generation to generation through oral tradition, a fine folk art treasure that ancient people left us. We also have seen the challenge Qianyang embroidery faces, and the measures by County Government to inherit, develop local fabric embroidery. It strengthens our responsibility to preserve folk art. Meanwhile in the course of project research, our ability of social practice and IT got improved.

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