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Bike Lane2008-1-15(Chun-yen)

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     It was the only path from  Mt.  BaiGuo  in YuanLin to the school, which was so rough that even a crowd of bull carts had to pass through this wriggly and steep lane and pick up the bride. However, this lane has been planned to be a land rover lane. Down to this lane, there is a resting place for the bikes, especially planned by the Bicycles Association. Go more further and the mountain wall is accompanied by an ordinary short cement wall, which was the original boundary between FenYuan and YuanLin.

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2008/1/15/Three-section compound buildings(Ke-yen)

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      Down the path along the wall of the school, the first sight is a land covered with pieces of rectangular toast, reportedly for cattle, and next is an antique and archaic three-section compound building with unburned firewood piled up under the eaves. Inside the building lies an old cooking stove that seems still being used right now and there is also a small piece of land applied to cultivate vegetables. It really reappears the early life of rural village. At the place where they offer sacrifices to Gods or ancestors, a tablet written with “高陽堂” is still hung at the outside top of the middle hall in most of this kind of buildings.

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2008-1-14Commander’s Platform(Ya-han)

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      It is quite ingenious of design and decorations around the commander’s platform. It was designed just on the sports day once held and received the fund. The designer arranged the space so well and represented it amazingly. Most of all, bamboos are knit at random and shaped into many “”, reportedly also shaped into a word as a whole but hard identified. This idea is from the name of “DaiChu” Village. (“Dai” stands for big and “Chu” stands for bamboos.) The most admiring is that in the process of knitting the bamboos were shaped without a draw and any articulation but with tight tabling between bamboos. The designer is Mr. Tzen, the cultural art worker in Taichung County. Besides the knit bamboos, the mosaic picture made by parents and students is also greatly featured that it is illustrated by the views of the campus, e.g. trees, the school gate and each part of the campus. Everyone painted on the small tiles and then collaged these tiles into a completely gorgeous picture so that the beauty of the campus is most perfectly performed.

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2008-1-14The Platform(Hsin-lu)

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      There is a small platform at the loft of the teaching building in WunDe elementary school. Each time when rainy season,people can get on the loft to overlook and see Taichung Harbor after it rains and becomes clean and fresh.

 

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2008-1-14Grocery Stores(Chun-yen)

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      At the small path near by the ancient water-carrying path, a box of empty bottles and a mailbox are put in front of the door of a house. A gracious old woman comes out of the house and says that she is the owner of the grocery store and sells snacks to students. She sold kinds of candies and toys in the past but few now. This grocery store has existed for more than fifty years. She came from prosperous YuanLin and got married here when teenage. She had to carry water on her own, living without electricity, but she liked the cool weather here. Once a day a student discovered the unique mailbox in the house. The colorful mailbox with local specialties, such as the litchi and pineapple, on the half-protruding appearance attracted everyone. There is still a white pigeon with a cute letter in its mouth resting on the top of the box. This pretty design could be seen on all the mailbox in the village because they were provided by the town mayor.

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2008/1/14/The Ancient Water-Carrying Path(Ya-han)

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      The ancient water-carrying path, opened up by the local residents, was meant to solve the problem of drinking water. In the early time, it was inconvenient in traffic and lack of water so that the residents had to settle this problem of living demand. Not until they found a natural trench and dug two wells at the source, could this severe problem be released. Afterwards, due to the steep the path was laid by stones and formed into a long stairway, reportedly with 305 footsteps. However it becomes a place to throw trash nowadays. Because the path locates in the mount, there are lots of views of natural living beings, e.g. Chinese Pennisetum, Balloon Vine and Shell Flower, and of fruit trees and farms, e.g. pineapple, longan, green mango, carambola and ginger farms.

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2008-1-11The  Activities Center(Ya-han)

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      It was originally the day-care center of the school but is now the activities center of the community after all the day-care centers in  FenYuan Township have been gathered up in Shekou. It is the place where lots of activities are held in the community. This territory is belonged to WunDe elementary school but the building is belonged to the community.

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2008-1-10The horsehead seesaw(Hsiu-hui)

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      This seesaw is made of only wood by an eighty-year-old elder. It is featured with a horse head, cute and creative, and is quite strong that it can be both an artwork and equipment for play. The local guide lady, who introduces the seesaw, even sits on the seesaw and shows us how strong it is in person. A swing beside the horsehead seesaw is also the idea of the elder. It is not only general but also old-time-flavored, with lots of fun.

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2008-1-10The lion head(Ya-han)

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     The lion head outside of the classroom door is truly an attractive spot that it is the work created by all the teachers and students when the 35th anniversary celebration of this school took place. There should be 8 lion heads, hanging on the wall of the second floor of the teaching building just behind the commander’s platform, but now 6 completely left after damaged from long exposure of the sun and rain and moved to the outside of the classrooms on the 3rd floor of the teaching building.

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2008-1-10Pavilion(Ya-han)

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      The earthquake on Sep. 21st collapsed the pavilion, left over the middle pillar and the chairs around. The most special point is that under the pavilion locates the water reservoir of the school and that provides the school water. Since the local water is from Nantou County, WunDe elementary school, the highest school in Changhua County with 350-meter-height, has been lack of water very often in the early time that water were provided once every three days, five days or even ten days. Thereafter each house contains more than one reservoir.

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2008-1-9History of  WunDe Elementary School(Hsin-lu)

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        WunDe Elementary School was originally part of TongAn Branch and, due to the increased number of students and practice of 9-year integrated curriculum, then turned formally into  Changhua County FenYuan Township WunDe Elementary School on August 1st, 1969. For your information, the wall was built in 1988. The number of students is, however, not great enough, probably leading to be absorbed. The origin of the school’s name is special. Its name should be “DaiChu elementary school” due to its location in  DaiChu Township . However there is a school named “DaiChu elementary school” already. As a result, it is given another name “WunDe elementary school”. This name is also meaningful in Mandarin (Taiwanese). “De” sounds like bamboo in Mandarin (Taiwanese) and stands for plenty bamboo there, too. Even the two hands holding the word “De” represent the name in Mandarin (Taiwanese), i.e. “hold (De) safely”.

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2008-1-9The Cooking Stove(Hsiu-hui)

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      In the backyard that seems nobody would walk by, a small cooking stove hides itself under a pile of staff and seems unused for years. The old lady explains,” This cooking stove is only used to fire for dried longan in September and August.

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2008/1/8Chinese Radio(Ya-chun)

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        The high geography interests televisions and radios, for example, China Television Company and Chinese Television System, to set base stations and there is one just besides WunDe elementary school. The powerful airwaves from the base station truly annoy the residents in daily life, especially on electric appliances.

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2008-1-8Pineapple Farm(Hsin-lu)

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        There are three specialties in FenYuan Township , i.e. pineapple, litchi, and rice-flour noodles. Many and many pineapple farms are aligned along two sides of the road. A pineapple needs three years to grow up and the pineapples here are locally planted and not improved. What’s more, those are Tainung No.2 and No.3, growing up in red soil without pesticide, for food only. In October, those pineapples’ growth will be hastened by slake lime, that is Ca(OH)2. Many manufactories of rice-flour noodles in Hsinchu and Puli are from FenYuan. Those manufactured in Puli are made from more flour (corn flour) and those in Hsinchu are made from half rice (indica rice) and half flour. Both of them are sold everywhere in Taiwan .

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2008-1-8Dragon-shaped Forest (Min-ching)

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        The playground of the school is surrounded by a line of trees that are quite unusually like a shape of a dragon. It is said that they were moved to the place in 1990s and were all shaped elaborately, especially the one at the head of the dragon, which has existed for long.

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2008-1-8BaoSheng Temple(Chun-yen)

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        Baosheng Temple locates at No.8 665 Lane 1 Sec. DaiChang Rd. DaiChu Village Fenyuan Township and the main God respected in this temple is Chung Fu Wang Ye Deity. Most of the residents here have the same surname “Hsu” and the hall name is “高陽堂”. The ancestors of these residents, from ShihGuei in Nan’an County at  FuJian Province, brought Chung Fu Wang Ye Deity respectfully to  Taiwan , landed by Lukang during exploration in  Taiwan under Chien-lung years in Ching Dynasty and finally moved to Fenyuan. At that time, they saw a huge camphor tree with empty inside, allowing people to hide in, and therefore placed the Deity sincerely in the camphor tree for the residents to worship. Accordingly, this place got the name “Camphor Hollow”. As time goes by, the village was getting larger, residing in “Camphor Hollow”, Dongliao, Chu-Kao-Tso and Da-Jhu-Wei, and set up a ritual organization that leaders took turns to serve the Deity. In the early time this temple was the place where the three villages, such as bamboo-wall-encircled Da-Jhu-Wei, olive-featured Gan-Zai-Jiao and banyan-featured Rong-Zai-Jiao, paid their respects to their Gods together but separately later.

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2008/1/8/Chinese Radio Broadcasting Station(Ke-yen)

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        This Chinese Radio Broadcasting Station right next to WunDe elementary school has existed since Restoration. At that time this area was valued at just more than 200 dollars. So far it has remained for 40 years and receives the microwave or satellite signals from Taipei to Taichung, then turning to Chiayi. It has three channels, i.e. news, music and fashion, and opens up everyday.

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2008/1/8Pineapple Farm(Ya-chun)

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Local specialties: pineapple, longan,persimmon

pineapple

       Pineapple trees grow on the ground and each grows one pineapple a year.

       Ingredients: pineapples contain abundant nutrition, such as sugar, carbohydrate, organic acid, amino acid, nicotinic acid, protein, fat and vitamin A, B, C and G as well as riboflavin, carotene, thiamine (vitamin B1) and dietary fiber, and minerals, such as iron, magnesium, kalium, sodium, calcium, phosphorus and so on.
      This pineapple farm involves pineapples of Tainung No.2, No.3, No.16 and No.17, which are categorized from their ends. These pineapples produced here will be sold to the market of Yuanlin.

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2008-1-7Groundwater Basin(Ya-han)

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        The groundwater basin was the main reservoir to the residents in the village. Formerly, about more than 60 households came here and carried water home and filtered the water by alum before they drank it. Nevertheless, the water in the groundwater basin would be exhausted during January to March every year. Once the water was used up, the residents had to go over to the lake in Mt.BaiGuo for drinking water.

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2008-1-7Universal Natural Stone Palace(Chun-yen)

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      What are served and respected in the palace are stones with unique images of Gods formed by the nature, unartificially, since tens of thousand or of million years ago and that really moves us to admire the profound universe.

       There are legends when these stones were about to come out. Sometimes abbots were informed in their dreams about when, where and what kind of stone would appear and then they would ask for some hands to seek for it. Sometimes stones would be found by luck. The most featured one in the temple is that it contains people of every faith, including Shakyamuni Buddha, Kitigarbha Buddha and, most surprisingly, Blessed Virgin Mary of Christianity. Due to its embracing everything, it is named as “Universal”  Natural Stone Palace .

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2008/1/3/Hundred-year-old brick house – the temple of  God of Earth and Mountain(Ke-yen)

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        On the way, the village leader introduced us a hundred-year-old brick house, with a wall wrecked down, which still seemed strong. Besides, we all found that all the mailboxes of houses in DaiChu village were the same, colored like pale wood and decorated with fruits, such as pineapple and grapes. The village leader said that these mailboxes were delivered from the mainland and the fruits were those produced in DaiChu village. Afterwards he brought us to a small temple of  God of Earth and Mountain, the only one in DaiChu village. This temple served no Goddess of Earth but Mountain only God of Earth and Mountain. By the side of the temple stood a hundred-year-old banyan of which thick roots were twisted and intricate in the earth and leaves were fully greeny and glossy, looking respectable and affable. The God of Earth and Mountain was originally treated and served upon the roots and later moved to the temple since the temple had been built.

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2008-1-7The  temple of  Bao Ching Tien (Min-ching)

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        This  temple of  Bao Ching Tien has existed for more than ten years. The ancestors of the residents here, whose surnames were Hsu, had been asked in their dream by Elder Bao to build a temple for him and he would bless and protect them. This temple is the new one and the statute of Elder Bao originally located in the hall in the middle of a three-section compound building not far from the present temple. Reasonably, the residents have been worshipping Elder Bao for more than a hundred years. More than ten years ago, the residents thought the original place for Elder Bao was too small and hence built a new temple, the present one. Consequently the original place treats and serves their ancestors only instead of Elder Bao. They address Elder Bao as Bao Saint. In the middle of the main hall sits the statue of Bao Ching Tien, of which the right side is God of Fu De (God of Earth and Mountain) and the left side is Wu Yen.

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2008-1-7Woodcarving Artist(Chun-yen)

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        Master Hsu fell in love with the figures in traditional hand puppet shows since he watched the show in his childhood. At the very start, his older brother carved the pineapple, then dirt and firewood, just for fun. Afterwards he got interests in learning carving and made his skills matured gradually till he could carve out most of all the shapes. As he realized that merely carving was not a career for his living, he took a rest and turned to carve statues of God to sell in Japan ; meanwhile, he carved statues of God as a professional instead of an amateur. He carved sandalwood mostly at that time. However there were more and more competitors of carving industry from the mainland and Japanese turned to purchase the statues in the mainland, leading to sales volume of statues decreased.

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2008/1/7/The Lakelet(Ke-yen)

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        There is a lakelet in front of the community leader’s house. It allowed the farm oxen to drink and wash themselves previously but was abandoned due to trash pollution after agricultural transformation. A broken  India coral tree stands by the lakelet, existing for more than a hundred years since at least the community leader was born. The old  India coral tree had suffered by insects and the community leader saved it by filling in the crack with a piece of pesticides-soaked cloth. At last the tree was still destroyed by Typhoon Longwang and broken at the trunk that could not be repaired anymore after the community leader took several tries.

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2008-1-4The Community Leader’s House(Fang-tzu)

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      The community leader is 76 years old this year; his birthpet is horse. His house is a two-windowed building, constructed about twenty or thirty years ago. The buildings here were all guarded by a fence from rapparees in Ching Dynastic because they located in remote mountains. There were about 30 households but now are 450 households left due to severe overflow of labor population, most of whom moved to other places.

      The community leader’s house has two floors. On the second floor are bedrooms and on the first floor there is still an enclosed room with a locked door and a lot of Chinese medicine. He says that as long as the local residents is injured or had gastrointestinal and hepatogenic problems, they would ask him to prescribe. All the prescriptions are hereditary secret ones, from ancestors’ intelligence essence.

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2008-1-4Old camphor tree(Hsin-lu)

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      Behind the community leader’s house stands a hundred-year-old camphor tree. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the camphor tree is so call because of its complicated inside lines. Moreover, the wood is hard-wearing and bug-preventing, compact and fragrant. It is the best wood for shipbuilding, sculpturing and furniture manufacturing and its root, stem, branches and leaves can extract camphor oil. It is an important species of tree for economy. In front of the tree is a  temple of  God of Earth and Mountain built about 20 years ago. It is rarely seen that this temple treats and serves both God and Goddess of Earth and Mountain. Before the temple was built, what was worshipped was a stone, named “石敢當” (which means Tough Stone) for preventing and cutting off badness.

 

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2008-1-4Water Channel(Ya-han)

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      It is still visible that there is a basin, now covered with flowers and grass. After the World War II, it has taken the charge of water provider for the local residents for 60 years. At that time all residents relied on this large water channel. As tap water system had been perfect and the water channel was becoming desolated, then dried up. Now water in the tap water system is from Nantou.

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2008/1/4.The three-section building of Hsu(Ya-chun)

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      Most of the residents at this place ( DaiChu Village) have the same surname “Hsu” that makes people associate with the ban to marry to the one with the same surname. We ask the community leader and get an answer that it was not accepted to marry to the one with the same surname in the early time. However it is more open nowadays and some residents with the same surname get married while some still avoid it.

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2008-1-3The Pineapple Farm(Hsin-lu)

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        Three specialties of  Fenyuan Township: rice-flour noodles, litchi and pineapple. The area of the farm of pineapple, one of the specialties, is the largest in the county that it occupies more than 440 hectares.

How to select pineapples

        Pineapples are produced in all four seasons in  Taiwan and categorized according to different seasons which affect their quality. Pineapples in spring and summer, from the last third part of April to June, are in the same type, of which are the sweetest ones, good to take uncookedly. Pineapples in winter, from November to February next year, are too sour to take uncookedly and, therefore, turn to be processed food. Visually, we pick out the pineapple with compact heavy flesh and clean splendid appearance, without split and injury. What’s more, its fruit core should be protruding apparently, its flesh should smell fresh, strong and special, and the fillip sound should heavy and substantial. Inside the fruit, there should be dark yellow and juicy flesh with high sweet and low sour degree, tasting fragrant and delicious with high quality. In front of the pineapple farm in Fenyuan Township, usually planted a long cane, the one used by God of Earth and Mountain, standing for the guardian of this place.

 

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2008-1-3Nanhua Temple(Fang-tzu)

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Faith in Fenyuan Township

        This township is developed later than others and has few passageways to large cities. Thereafter there are no temples built by all the past dynasties but by the villages. The difference between worship of residents and of government is localism and variety. Most worship of residents is out of their own motivation so that what they need or prefer is easy to found through whom or what they worship. There are more than 200 Gods in  Taiwan and most of them are Gods of Township Guardian that came from homelands of residents’ ancestors. Fu De Ci are in every villages in this township, though small-scaled, because the residents are engaged in agriculture and grateful to this land, making much of worshipping God of Earth and Mountain.

        Nanhua Temple is the only temple that worships Saintly Emperor Guan in this township.  Nanhua Temple locates in  DaiChu Village . “Nan” stands for Nantou, “Hua” for Changhua, and the location of  Nanhua Temple is exactly at the middle of Nantou and Changhua. Its address is No.80 Lane 222 Sec.1 Rd. Daichang Daichu Village in  Fenyuan Township and it was built in August, 2068. It serves Saintly Emperor Guan, Padmapani Avalokiteshvara, and Cheng Huang Ye.

        Most of the residents here have the same surname “Hsu” and the homeland of their ancestors is ZhangZhou in  FuJian Province . Their ancestors came over here, named “崙仔尾” (which meant the top of the mount), under Emperor Xian Feng’s reign in Ching Dynasty. At that time only 9 households lived here but now more than a hundred do. The village planned to build temples since 1945 but were failed due to lack of fund. In 1967, Han Tsong Hsu, He Jiang, Chin Po Hsieh, Sih Shih Hsu and et al started to build temples and completed in 1968, then changing the name of the place “崙仔尾” to “崙興” (which means prosperity on the top of the mount).

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2008-1-3Beautified and green Landscape of the Activities Center in  TaChu Village, FenYuang Township, ChangHua County(Wei-cheng)

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.Inspiration

1. Refreshing the top of the Mt. Bagua:Mt. Bagua is enriched by abundant landscape of human culture, history and nature. TaChu Village is precisely on the top of the Mt. Bagua and the important place of production of pineapple. As the necessary access to Mt.Bagua, this community, however, contains no place for the residents of the community to take a rest without any thought of leaving. As long as a place would be appropriately divided for the residents to enjoy through the chance “city and countryside landscape reconstruction”, not only the dream of the whole community will come true but also the local industry can be promoted. 

2. Making the best use of the Communal Activities Center:Except some meetings, few residents act in the Activities Center, though built for the residents in the community, due to its framework and the surroundings. There are plenty of high and low buildings around the ActivitiesCenter and that makes the center isolated. As long as it is appropriate planned and reshaped to a Communal Resting Place, it will definitely attract the residents and make the best use of itself. People in the community are all looking forward to the changing Activities Center if properly reconstructed. 

3. Opening up the school and making thecenter reachableThe Communal  Activities Center , though in the school, is next the school gate and the main road. If the wall between the center and the outside can be demolished, the  Communal Activities Center can be more reachable to the residents and the community and the school can be integrated as a whole. Therefore this opening space brings accessibility and amenity to the community. 

.Goals

1. Demolish the existing obstacles andbuilt a friendly community.

2. Reinforce greening the  Activities Center and reshape the community

3. Green the  Communal Resting Park and make the best use of it

4. Open up the school and develop theunknown space in the community

5. Add night lighting equipment and createa night pearl on the top of  Mt. BuGua  

. Expectations and efficiency

1. Solving the problem of inconvenientpassage to the Communal Activities Center

2. Increasing the efficiency of the Communal Activities Center

3. Bringing the various kinds ofopportunities and space for the residents

4. Providing a new park for the residentsto take a rest and enjoy leisure

5. Assembling conscious and emotions of theresident in the community

6. Promoting identification within theresidents in the community

7. Beautifying the community and pushingthe development of industry in the community

8. Creating a night pearl that lightens the shape of Mt. BaGua

.  Strategies to permanent management and preservation

()Set up a specialized manager       

1.Preservation: Ms. ShuYuan Huang, one of the Parental Committee       

2.Surroundings: Students in the elementary school       

3.Green environment: The Communal Development Association takes charge of renovating the plants to keep the plants healthily grown from the expense if needed and Ms. RueiTsau Shiu takes charge of preservation.  

()Publicize the residents to cherish the resource of the school and combine with the teaching topics for the residents to learn together.  

()Promote the Family Volunteer Adoption System, establish the Family Adoption Plan and improve the relationship among the families through adoption 

(四)Apply to the Township Office for relevant expense to preserve the resources of the community

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2008-1-3Creative Campus- Fairy Land  ( the backyard of WunDe)(Ying Hsu)

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. Background

Since this school lies on the top of  Mt. BaGua , it is surrounded by plenty of natural landscapes and ecology. The teachers and students in this school and all the parents in the community therefore have been expecting a campus close to life with vitality and creativity. Even passer-by at  Mt. BaGua could take a rest in this wonderful place and experience the works of God.

.Goal

1. Inspire each child to think creatively and know their specialty through the originality activities with multiple orientations and variety, so that they are able to think independently and have the chance to succeed.

2. Discuss and practice the public issues by the way that teachers, students and parents in the community join together. More users attend to this discussion and more ideas are gathered in the process that they shape the public spaces together. Hence such basic elements of democratic society as “Discussion” and “Attendance” will finally become part of life styles in the campus.

3. Create a place that can provide chances for students to learn and let residents, teachers and students develop permanently.

.Plan:

1. Invite all the teachers, students and residents in the community to attend to symposiums, conferences and orientations or to fill out questionnaires for various opinions about each needed changes in the campus.

2. Hold school’s core curriculum conferences for multi-oriented ideas about vitality environment and creative campus form the teachers and reach a common view through cooperation, carrying out the concepts and practice of permanent development of creative education.

3. Hold all kinds of creative educational art contests, e.g. space planning, naming and painting, and encourage all the teachers and students to think creatively and to bring out their originality.

4. Invite experts and great architects in related fields to provide their design ideas and build the campus creative space together with all the teachers, students in the school and the representatives of parents.

5. After the reconstruction engineering, continue to plan, improve and integrate the featured curriculum of the campus, related teaching plan, handicrafts producing and dynamic activities in order to make the highest efficiency in bringing creative space into creative education.

6. Write a report about this campus creative space plan and results and share with people on the Internet.