News source: Reporter Cai Rongzong/Touxian Report

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The Ministry of Education held the 9th Art Education Contribution Award Ceremony at the National Taiwan Art Education Center on December 28, 2019. Xiulin Elementary School, Zhushan Town, Nantou County, won the Art Education Contribution Award - the National Group Outstanding School Award. The school's "Bamboo Ensemble" was also invited to be the opening performance group for the ceremony.

County Magistrate Xu Shuhua said that the aesthetic education in Nantou County is based on the theme of "Aesthetic Life Art Takes Root". "Art" is a product created by human beings' feelings about life and has aesthetic feeling. Xiulin Elementary School uses "art" to teach in pleasure, "Appreciation of Beauty" develops art education and integrates local bamboo culture to inherit and transform local art. It is a model for promoting art education in Nantou County.

Principal Yang Qingfeng said that Xiulin Elementary School is located in Zhushan, the hometown of bamboo. The school integrates local bamboo culture and uses cross-field aesthetic education to promote school-based curriculum, guiding students to understand their hometown, starting with understanding the development and evolution of bamboo, and then growing further. Performance by Zhizhu Band. The school has been awarded the title of the Ministry of Education’s Cross-Domain Aesthetics Experimental Project School for several consecutive years. In the 2018 school year, the school won the Ministry of Education’s “Cross-Domain Aesthetics Sail Award” and in the 2019 school year it won the Ministry of Education’s “Cross-Domain Aesthetics Excellence Award.” This year, it also won the Ministry of Education’s “Cross-Domain Aesthetics Sail Award”. Excellent results of “Model School of Field Aesthetic Project”.

The students used bamboo instruments made by local bamboo artists in Zhushan to form the only bamboo orchestra in the county and one of the few in the country. It has achieved great results in music competitions in recent years. The orchestra has also been invited to perform many times. Among them, it was invited by the National Taiwan Normal University to be the performance group of the "International Symposium on Interdisciplinary Aesthetics" and to participate in the "2019 International Symposium on Early Childhood Education in the Pacific - Cultural Night", which was grand and grand. Well received.

County Magistrate Xu Shuhua attaches great importance to art and aesthetic education in the county, and spares no effort to promote art and aesthetic education in the county. He hopes that Nantou will cultivate artistic aesthetic literacy through education and create an aesthetic life based on its long and diverse history and rich artistic heritage. Create a livable city.