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Interview with Mr. Jiang

Interview with Mr. Ding

Interview with Miss Jiang

First, let me introduce our first interviewee to you. He is also our schoolmaster’s father, whose last name is Jiang, people often call him grandpa Jiang. He is 73 years old now and used to be the schoolmaster of the Paradise Primary School in Paradise Town. Not he retires at home. Grandpa Jiang is optimistic and open-minded, he was very happy for our coming. Grandpa Jiang is not only good at teaching but also like folk chanson. He would sing part of the songs on holidays to express his happy mood. Today our interview purpose mainly is through listening to Grandpa Jiang’s songs to feel the life experience of his generation. Following is our interview log.?
Interview topic:	current situation in Tianzhu:	place:	grandpa Jiang’home
Interview date:	October,10th, 2009	Interview time	3PM to 4PM afternoon
Interview equipment:	1, digital camera 2, digital vedio 3, digital recorder
Interview personnel:	Zhao Yanxiang, Zhang Shunxiang, Duan Yunlong, Yang Yan
Record the formal preface before interview, explain the interviewer and interviewee, date and place.
Interview Q&A:	Q: Hello, Grandpa Jiang! We are students of Tianzhu No.1 middle school. We feel very sorry for interpreting you today.
	A: that’s all right, I always stay at home with nothing to do. So I am veryglad for you coming.
	Q: Grandpa Jiang, we heard that you like to sing drinking, especially on holidays, can you talk about the reasons for it?
	A: there were no TV and internet before, people like to gather together drinking at leisure time to express feelings. It formed different tunes after times and becomes our Tianzhu’s special cultural tradtion.

	Q: grandpa Jiang, whom do you learnt this tunes with?
	A: People all like this before and sing this kind of tunes. After long time contacting, we learnt by ourselves.
	Q: Grandpa Jiang, can you sing a song for us?
	A: sure, I am very happy for you coming, then let me sing you a popular Tibet Tune in Tianzhu area. This song expresses farmers’ all kinds of experiences in a year and the happy mood after harvest at the end of the year.

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