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Yanpu Junior High School Puppet Show Livens the Legend of Building a Village

Yanpu Junior High School in Pingtung County used puppetry to perform "The Legend of Fushu Gong", the story of building a village in Yanpu Township, to create a fixed-length drama that will represent Pingtung County in the National Creative Drama Competition. Reporter Liu Xingjun/Photography
Yanpu Junior High School in Pingtung County used puppetry to perform "The Legend of Fushu Gong", the story of building a village in Yanpu Township, to create a fixed-length drama that will represent Pingtung County in the National Creative Drama Competition. Reporter Liu Xingjun/Photography

News source: United Daily News/ReporterLiu Xingjun/ Pingtung Report

News link:https://udn.com/news/story/6898/6864661

In the cross-disciplinary arts course at Yanpu Junior High School in Pingtung County, Chinese language, performance and art teachers led students on community visits, wrote hometown stories into scripts, and used puppet shows to perform "The Legend of Fu Shugong", the story of the establishment of a village in Yanpu; students challenged themselves, no one ever saysTaiwaneseBy performing the entire performance in Taiwanese, my self-confidence has greatly increased. They won the county competition and will compete in the National Creative Drama Competition next May.

"Drama is not only art education, but also a life education process." Art teacher Lin Sumei said that during the investigation, the students learned about the story of building a village in Yanpu Township. Starting 250 years ago, the bank of Ailiao Creek at the foot of Dawu Mountain is the Macha RoadPingpu peopleIn the hunting land of Yanpu, the early merchant caravans of Yanpu kept their promise to build a temple with Fu Shugong and successfully traded with the Pingpu people. Chinese teacher Huang Yushuang wrote the story of her hometown into a script. The drama class was led by teacher Ouyang Huiying using body and puppetry. The play tells the story of ancestors, and the length of the play has also increased from 3 minutes in the classroom to 17 minutes now. In addition to passing on the culture, it also performs in the community to spread the beauty of culture.

Eighth grader Zhong Yuxiang performed the role of Big Boss. He said that he spoke Taiwanese throughout the performance. He does not speak Taiwanese and kept practicing for the performance. Seventh grader Guo Youting played the two roles of Lei Gong and Heluo brothers and practiced correcting Taiwanese pronunciation with his grandma.

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