Taichung City Wuri Junior High School - A New Biography of Li Jing Ji: Love in the Peach Blossom Land

This semester's cross-disciplinary aesthetic course is based on the discussion and understanding of "Li Jing Ji". The goal in the field of performing arts is to hope that students will have a deeper understanding of the "stylized performance" unique to Chinese traditional arts. Experience and contact, stylized movements are the art of opera, or even the crystallization of the collective wisdom of Chinese culture. It is based on the unique and delicate requirements of opera for the aesthetics of performance, and is refined, summarized and beautified from the natural language and movements in life. , transformation, so this course design focuses more on life experience. Everyone’s life experience is the best performance material. Only when performance can truly collide with life can it inspire profound emotions and brilliance.
In daily life, as soon as you open your eyes, you will see all kinds of colors. In the biology class, you can combine the principles of the three primary colors of color learning learned in the performance art class, and produce various colors through the projection of light, allowing students to Understand how stage lighting is produced, and hope that students can combine what they learn with life.
In the first semester music class, students will be introduced to Chinese musical instruments, basic musical patterns, scales, etc. In this semester, they will look at the world from Chinese elements, develop from the pentatonic scale, and lead them to explore many such derivative works. Finally, through During these teaching processes, students can go back to appreciate "The Story of Li Jing" so that students can appreciate this Ming Dynasty Teochew opera from more aspects.
The Nanguan Opera "Li Jing Ji" tells the story of ancient women's courageous pursuit of love. Because mainstream values that do not conform to the traditional "parental orders" are often banned by the court, it reflects the human nature of pursuing freedom. Therefore, the design concept of this course is to focus on women who are often ignored in traditional historical narratives. Through topics such as changes in aesthetics, footbinding customs, marriage forms, and chastity memorial arches, we will discuss the changes in women’s status in traditional society and supplement the knowledge in history textbooks. The lack of female faces allows students to have a clearer understanding of the spirit of the times reflected in the opera "Lai Jing Ji".