News source: Renewal Daily/Reported by Li Jieyu
News link:http://www.ksnews.com.tw/index.php/news/contents_page/0000945023

Sponsored by Guofeng Junior High School, the Ministry of Education's cross-field aesthetic education activity plan "Flowers in Hometown│Hualien Souvenirs" combines English course teaching and art course aesthetic education. A learning outcome meeting was held at the end of the semester for 29 students in the art class. The students spent several weeks collecting unique souvenirs from Hualien’s towns from north to south. During the meeting, the students shared Hualien’s unique souvenirs one by one and introduced Hualien’s food culture in English, hoping to attract the attention of other counties and cities. My friends knew Hualien and took this opportunity to introduce Hualien to their foreign friends.
The end-of-semester sharing session presented the aroma of various delicacies and the lively atmosphere of the Harvest Festival. The school also specially invited Luo Meilan, a professor from Donghua University, to give an introduction to the presentation, making the entire event process like an academic paper presentation. Students were divided into ten groups in total. , the contents presented include Amis, Taroko, Mambo fish, pig's feet, yokan, moss, daylilies, Tzu Chi vegetarian instant noodles/rice, non-toxic organic vegetarian food, Hualien gemstones, etc.
The students carefully explained the learning results they had prepared for a long time in English in the form of presentations, combined with physical display and song and dance performances. Although some students were slightly nervous, the overall content was praised by the teachers present.
Zhong Yizhi, the principal of Guofeng Junior High School, said that Guofeng Junior High School is a seed school for aesthetic education of the Ministry of Education. After the completion of the preliminary experimental plan, in addition to developing special courses within the school, the school is also responsible for tutoring the aesthetic education courses of Yihua East Three County Experimental School. R&D.
The investment and efforts of the Guofeng Art and Humanities teaching team in art education not only hope to deepen local cultivation, but also hope to influence the improvement of aesthetic education in neighboring counties and cities, and integrate regional resources to work together for art education.
This cross-field aesthetic course starts with the English class. Liu Yinuo, the instructor of the English class, said that because the eighth-grade course happens to cover the culture of gift-giving and the taboos of giving gifts in different cultures, he hopes students will think about what to do if there are people from other places. If your friends come to Hualien to visit, you should introduce them to what souvenirs to buy.
Recommend the emergency instant noodles and rice noodles developed by Tzu Chi
Students from Guofeng Junior High School's art class shared souvenirs unique to each town in Hualien. Student Zhuang Shanyuan said, "Whenever foreign friends come to Hualien, they must introduce them to eating pig's feet. Hualien's pig's feet are the most delicious."
Jiang Yaodong and Ke Yi said: "The results of our research show that the non-toxic fruits and vegetables from organic farming in Hualien have been very reliably tested. Coupled with the beautiful mountains and water in Hualien, the food must be more delicious and healthier than the food in other counties and cities."
Student Chen Yichen said, "The most famous one in Hualien is Tzu Chi. Everyone knows at home and abroad that the instant noodles and rice noodles developed by Tzu Chi have played an important role in providing emergency relief when major disasters occurred around the world. They are delicious and healthy. Definitely recommend it to everyone.」
English introduction to the traditional ritual songs and dances of the Ami people and the totems of the Taroko people
In conjunction with the teaching of the English course, students also introduced Hualien’s aboriginal culture in English. Chen Hongyu, a student from the Ami tribe, introduced the traditional ritual culture of the Ami tribe and the song and dance performances that the tribe is good at in English. Zhang Qiaoxun introduced the totems of the Taroko tribe. The students They used the English sentence patterns learned in the textbook to describe the cultural characteristics of Hualien, and also allowed what they learned in the classroom to be applied in practical life.
Ink painting instructor Tang Xiangying said that at the end of the course, students were asked to present their research results in ink paintings, hoping that through the culturally distinctive ink texture design, they would belong to Hualien's cultural and creative art.