Bamboo is one of the important representative of Taiwan's native plants, and history of bamboo-related materials, equipment, technics is long. Bamboo occupies an important place in Hakka culture. So, at the entrance of Tuku community, you can see the cattle and farm implements made of bamboos and each one is vivid and lifelike. Since ancient times, artifacts made of bamboo are indispensable in oriental culture. Though, bamboo is gradually replaced by new materials, people enhance the love and appreciation of aesthetic and natural materials. The function of bamboo works is from the practicality to the life aesthetics. Due to its variety of materials and techniques, bamboo works show their own uniqueness. Teacher professional community of aesthetic makers has designed courses intergrated with traditional bamboo weaving and western weaving through the curriculums of Chinese, social studies, life, integrative activities and art. We learn how to weave bamboos and regain the beauty of traditional craftsmanship in early agricultural life.

　　Our school invited an artist Shing-tze Liu who’s working at National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute and Mrs. Chen to teach us bamboo-weaving, quilting and sleeves of thermos. The traditional crafts own new life because of creativity. Wan-chi Yu, a knittng lecturer at Erlin Community College and also our school nurse taught us to make our own school supplies bag with our teachers. She had us apply math to the knitting craft and think how to hook the correct yarn pattern. It was really very novel and interesting. Even the parents who were learning together were hotly joined! Under the guidance of these professionals, everyone seriously learned, focused, restlessly weaved and knitted their first own craft. We take our art root from tradition to continuity, and then to innovation. Hope our art seedlings can quietly sprout in Tuku!