News source: Nantou News Network/Taiwan Zhengsheng News Network
Xiulin Elementary School in Zhushan Town combines the cultural characteristics of the local bamboo industry and is committed to promoting the Ministry of Education's "Aesthetic Education Project." With the joint efforts of principal Yang Qingfeng and all teachers and students, they played the "Bamboo Pai Flute" and made the "Bamboo Pai Flute" based on the bamboo in their hometown. "Musical Instruments" and "Bamboo Weaving Art" jointly designed a campus incorporating bamboo cultural features, which was perfectly presented in just three months. Yesterday (13th), the Japanese Bamboo Ensemble and Bamboo Pandi were invited to perform at the opening ceremony of the "National Taichung University of Education, Faculty of Arts Literary Season" and received rave reviews and praise. Principal Yang Qingfeng emphasized that the school’s aesthetic education starts from life. With beauty in life, one can naturally feel the beauty of nature and culture. He also hopes to implement the inheritance and inheritance of Zhushan’s “bamboo culture”.
Xiulin Elementary School in Zhushan Town is one of the beautiful mini forest elementary schools in the county. It has only 4 classes, 24 students and 9 teaching staff. Principal Yang Qingfeng pointed out that our school not only applied for the "Aesthetic Education Project" last year, but this semester was also selected as an "Experimental School for the Cross-Field Aesthetic Education Experimental Curriculum Development Project" by the Ministry of Education, with the goal of creating an aesthetic campus environment and improving the quality of life. and culture and art.
Last semester, with the efforts of all teachers and students, based on the unique bamboo of Zhushan, the general affairs director Tang Ziqi taught all the children in the school how to play the "Bamboo Pai Flute", which became a special course of the school. In addition, external teacher Huang Jiaxiang was also hired to teach how to make his own instruments. "Bamboo Pai Flute", and hired the famous bamboo craft teacher Lai Jinyi to teach Zhushan's unique culture "bamboo weaving art". All teachers and students of the school jointly arranged the school's teaching field to integrate the unique local bamboo cultural characteristics of the campus.
Principal Yang Qingfeng further stated that the aesthetic education plan is for the school to combine local culture and school-related courses so that students can start from life. With beauty in life, they can naturally feel the beauty of nature and culture. Therefore, the school chooses materials from the local culture of Zhushan and uses Taiwan's high-quality bamboo to teach students "bamboo weaving", "bamboo children's play" and "homemade bamboo pan flute" to play. While teachers teach music theory, they also integrate bamboo crafting and nature courses As well as the teaching of hometown culture, students can not only appreciate the beauty of music, but also cultivate their body and soul with the melodious sound of bamboo pan flute, cultivate a lifelong love for music, and pass on the "bamboo culture" of Zhushan to the next generation.
In addition, Xiulin teachers and students used their aesthetic creativity to design students' bamboo weaving works through installation art to create a "Bamboo Light Gallery" that uses lights and bamboo weaving to create changes in light shadows, forming an environmental language to communicate and dialogue with visitors. Experience a beautiful educational experience and touching experience.
Teacher Tang Ziqi, the instructor of Bamboo Pai Flute, said that Zhushan is the hometown of bamboo. The teaching of "Bamboo Pai Flute" has been implemented for several years and has become a special course of the school. In addition to allowing students to understand the unique bamboo culture of their hometown, they also hope that students can apply what they have learned and cultivate their knowledge. The ability to walk is in line with the literacy-oriented abilities of the current 12-year national education curriculum of the Ministry of Education.
Teacher Tang Ziqi, who is well-known for playing the bamboo pan flute in China, said that for children, the bamboo pan flute is not only a special musical talent, but also a leisure activity that cultivates the body and mind. However, the school found that if students wanted to learn bamboo pan flute, they might have to pay a lot of money, because the prices of handmade bamboo pan flutes vary. Some of them cost thousands to tens of thousands of yuan each, which is a financial burden for students. In order to promote Bamboo pan flute music, thank you to Principal Yang for preparing funds to purchase musical instruments and providing them to students for free.
Principal Yang Qingfeng also revealed that playing the bamboo pan flute requires a high degree of concentration and strong lung capacity. If lively and active rural children can calm down by playing the bamboo pan flute, they will not only have the foundation for learning other instruments, but also greatly improve their learning of other instruments. subject efficiency, and improve physical fitness. In addition, the bamboo flute orchestra established by our school is one of the best in the country, allowing students to learn performing arts courses. The school teachers use their spare time to guide students in group practice and actively strive for public performance opportunities. Recently, the Children's Welfare Alliance was invited to perform at the "Taichung Caowu Plaza" charity performance, and the "National Taichung University of Education, Faculty of Arts Literary Season" kicked off on the 13th. The experience of performing on stage has enabled the students to develop self-confidence and a stable style. All the teachers and students of the school Moreover, because we have a common goal and remember unity and cooperation, we strengthen our sense of honor, mutual help and discipline, and become children who are patient, determined, cooperative and orderly. These are important personality traits that cannot be learned in books.
Every child in Xiulin Elementary School is a musician who can show off. This morning (14th), in response to the media group’s request for interviews, the school arranged a bamboo orchestra to perform the humorous local "divination tune" and the bamboo flute "love". The true meaning of ". In particular, the seven young musicians from the first grade class, including Zeng Ziyue, Shen Youlin, and Wang Yinglian, were also present. They played "Little Stars" in a decent manner, which was really cute and extremely touching.
Cai Zhenyang, who was at the parent-teacher meeting at the on-site parent meeting, could not hide his joy and excitement, saying that the excellent teaching team led by Principal Yang Qingfeng has obviously made Xiulin Campus reborn and active, with the sound of flute music and laughter, and the children are advancing in all aspects of education and learning and growing happily. So happy.