Taichung Municipal Dongshi Industrial Senior High School – Collection: Tea Ceremony – Tranquility in Flow

"Cang: Tea Ceremony - Tranquility in Flow" aims to construct a space for life exploration through art, integrating Eastern cultural wisdom and anthroposophical educational concepts. Starting from personal life experiences, it cultivates students' observation, imagination, and sensitivity, and promotes inner awareness and spiritual growth.
The core concepts of the course include:
1. A Dialogue Between Form and Meaning
o Every form has symbolic meaning. Circles, triangles, spirals, and ripples are not only decorations, but also expressions of culture, emotions, and life experiences.
Through pattern design and visual creation, students learn to tell stories using the language of form and understand the deep connection between art and life.

2. Integrated education of head, mind, and hands
It integrates Eastern and Western cultural aesthetics, emphasizing the synergistic development of cognition, emotion, and practice.
Through observation, imagination, and creation, students externalize their inner feelings into artistic practice, promoting holistic development and spiritual reflection.
3. Cultural Experience and Social Interaction
Through tea gatherings, storytelling, and performances, students experience order, harmony, and tranquility in practice, appreciating the beauty of Eastern philosophy.
o Through group collaboration and cultural sharing, cultivate teamwork, social interaction and cultural sensitivity among teenagers.
4. Cross-disciplinary practice and aesthetic appreciation of life
o It combines professional subjects such as furniture design, interior design, catering, drafting and handicrafts to achieve the integration of artistic aesthetics and practical skills.
Students integrate visual, spatial, gustatory, and craft elements in decorative design, tea ceremony arrangement, and picture book creation, transforming aesthetics into practical life skills.
Overall, this course pursues an aesthetic education that blends stillness and movement: through artistic creation and cultural practice, students not only acquire skills and knowledge, but also cultivate a profound understanding of life, culture, and self.