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Lujiang International Primary and Secondary School takes the inheritance of arts, bilingual education, science and technology display, and international education as the four cores of running a school. Through this, it designs a cross-field themed curriculum with Lukang cultural characteristics, combining the advantages and characteristics of local culture and history to inherit the beauty of Lukang traditional culture and integrate with the world towards the international stage.

The new school in Guzhen injects the soul of traditional arts

When you walk into the campus of Lujiang International Primary and Secondary School, in addition to the vast green campus covering an area of 7.2 hectares, the most impressive thing you see is the red brick school building and sloping roof that look like the old streets of Lukang. When the school was built, local architects were specially invited to integrate the characteristics of Lukang street houses into the school buildings. Many designs that highlight the local characteristics and imagery of Lukang can also be seen in the school, including those designed by calligraphers Master Wu Zhaoxun and Master Lin Junchen. Works with famous inscriptions, the welcoming gate of the school square, the school building rich in the image of Lukang street houses and courtyards, and the clear-faced brick exterior walls showing rich cultural heritage. The unique design style not only gave the foreign guests visiting the school a profound image of Lukang, but also enabled Lujiang International Primary and Secondary School to win the Public Works Gold Award, known as the "Oscar Award in the Engineering Industry" from the very beginning.

Not only is the campus architecture unique, Lujiang is also the first public-operated experimental school in Changhua County. "One Mansion, Two Deer and Three Monga", Lukang is a very ancient town in Taiwan. It has many monuments and craft masters. It is also known as an open museum. Lujiang was born in the historic town of Lukang. For emerging schools established in the current situation of declining birthrate, how to integrate traditional Chinese skills into educational concepts while students master English listening, speaking, reading and writing skills and integrate them with international standards has always been an important core value of the teaching team. The school hopes to stimulate children's talents by breaking away from the traditional education framework, cultivate transferable abilities, and help each student become a unique self.

Principal Huang Junwei said that in response to the advent of the international era, the main purpose of the establishment of Lujiang International Primary and Secondary Schools is to integrate education with international standards, inherit Lukang's traditional craft culture, etc., and take science and technology education as the guide, hoping that children will be more international It is beautiful without losing the atmosphere of traditional art and culture.

More local and more international co-creation of cultural knowledge

Looking at the curriculum of Lujiang International Primary and Secondary Schools, you will find that they do not follow the general school division of Chinese, mathematics, and English. Instead, they design cross-field courses such as "Traditional Arts Technology", "Multiculturalism", and "Local Exploration". I hope Connect different disciplines through thematic courses, lead students to practice exploration in a cross-field way, and further deepen their learning process.

The reason why Lukang, a city with a gathering of people and culture, attracts thousands of tourists is not only because of its settlement buildings or delicacies, but also the traditional crafts and performing arts that have developed in response to ordinary people's lives and accumulated a history of hundreds of years. The essence of culture lies. In order to carry forward the humanistic glory of Lukang's history, the Lujiang teaching team integrates "Lukang traditional art and culture" with "bilingual education" and "technological education" to move towards international education.

Lukang has rich craft cultural assets. Since the Qing Dynasty, exquisite craftsmanship has been introduced from Quanzhou, Fujian and other places. After taking root, it combines with local characteristics and becomes unique. These artists passed down from generation to generation and their works are Lukang’s most valuable cultural assets. However, with the trend of modernization, many traditional crafts have faced a crisis of survival. Lujiang prides itself as a platform for Lukang students to learn not only the necessary subjects in elementary and middle schools, but also the local craftsmanship of Lukang, such as carpentry, tin Engineering, painting, architecture, etc. have all become special courses.

Every week, a life science and technology course is arranged for grades 7 to 9. Local craftsmen from Lugang are invited to the school to teach, so that students can slowly appreciate the beauty of traditional crafts through practice. In addition, aesthetic teaching activities also used Lukang’s traditional window grilles and lanterns as the theme design prototypes. By inviting craftsmen to pass on craftsmanship, teachers and students jointly created many cultural and creative products. Finally, students were given a stage through an achievement exhibition to shape their future. A dialogue between land and humanity. Based on the concepts of mutual learning, sharing and co-creation, Lujiang constructs a local science of art and cultural dialogue and creates a renaissance of Lukang craftsmanship.

Nanguan originally came from Quanzhou. It spread to Lukang with immigrants hundreds of years ago and flourished. Today, Lukang has become the center of Nanguan. However, the younger generation of Lukang children know very little about this beautiful traditional music. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, the first and second graders of Lujiang Junior High School each have an NGU course. Teachers from Juyingshe in Lukang are invited to lead the children to understand and experience the unique instrument, music theory and beauty of melody of NGU music.

The Northern and Southern Opera is an important treasure and cultural heritage in Taiwan's traditional music. Faced with its gradual decline, traditional artists and school teachers are committed to entering schools and taking root. The Changhua County Government has also implemented the "Changhua County Northern and Southern Opera Education The "Campus Learning Transfer Plan" policy of the "Take Root Project" uses the "one school, one library" strategy to allow traditional libraries to cooperate with schools, and through the combination of civil society, education and policy, so that children of the new generation can also understand The beauty of traditional music.

Principal Huang Junwei said that after participating in this project, many schools in Changhua County also felt the origin and importance of the North-South Pipeline in the development of Changhua. Many schools have included the North-South Pipeline in the school's special courses and have also learned local knowledge from Changhua. , enter the campus and teach students in our school.

Through the combination of folk, education and policy, as well as the joint efforts of artists and the county government, we hope that future generations can still see the beauty of traditional music.

Lukang Chuanyi Education Base plants the seeds of hope for Chuanyi

In the 110th year of the Republic of China, the Changhua County Government also established the "Lukang Traditional Arts Education Base" within the Lujiang International Primary and Secondary School. This was the first communication education field in Changhua County that used school space and combined school curriculum. The county government hopes that through the communication of arts The establishment of the education base allows students to use it in conjunction with courses in the field of life science and technology, and provides craftsmen and the public with more professional venues to use after school, further promoting the inheritance of traditional craftsmanship and allowing the sustainable development of Lukang traditional art.

The school stated that through the rich cultural heritage of Lukang and the teaching of local artists, the artist spirit and cultural knowledge passed on to students during their studies can be brought to students in a way that is closer to their own education, increasing their learning pleasure and Benefit, create "Happiness is learning, learning by doing, happy experience, and knowledge."

After the Lukang Communication Arts Education Base was established, Principal Huang Junwei said that as time went by, he saw the transformation of the children, especially the children who innovated based on tradition and obtained rich results in their studies that could be communicated with the world. That kind of happy smile also means that seeds of new hope for passing on art have been planted in the hearts of Lujiang children.

In addition to thanking the masters of traditional arts for their great help, Principal Huang Junwei also thanked the Cultural Bureau of Changhua County for its strong support. He believes that culture and education are actually the same. They rely on the accumulation bit by bit, which is slowly poured into life and passed on to the people. The next generation. The establishment of the Lukang Traditional Arts Education Base allows the traditional arts to be rooted and innovative through interaction with the community. Not only can local craftsmanship be passed on, but the next generation and more people can understand the local culture.

Education is a century-old work that cultivates people. In the future, Lujiang International Primary and Secondary Schools will continue to build a local education brand with design, productivity, and action capabilities. In a high-quality learning environment, we will cultivate bilingual and technological abilities, and then refine and innovate Lukang traditional arts. Culture, carry forward the educational and cultural soft power of Changhua County, and promote the traditional crafts learned to the world in the future.

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Source: Xin Media ( https://www.cmmedia.com.tw/home/articles/37754 )