Project overview

Catagory: Local Specialties, Sports and Health

 　 Description of “Our Community”
   

Datong County is located in the north eastern agricultural areas of Qinghai Province, with the provincial capital Xining, total area of 3090 square kilometers, covering 22 towns and 6 towns with a population of 41 million. The population density is 129 / sq km. It is enjoying rich resources, 234 acres of pasture available, and 100,000 hectares forest area, whose coverage is 26.4%, ranking the first in the province. Its transportation is also convenient, just 35 km away from Xining and less than 50 km from Xining Caojiapu Airport. Datong is a national commodity grain base county and one of the country's 500 largest food counties. The existing 79 acres of arable land is rich in wheat, beans, rape, barley, and etc., among which beans and cole crops are the local features. Datong County is the opening of the inland city of Xining City approved by the State Council, enjoying the same coastal development policies.
　

Gorgeous Yaozi ditch National Forest Park

Datong Grandpa Park

Summary of Our Project
   

At the recent meeting of the sixth session of the party's seventh meeting, promote development and prosperity of socialist culture should be prised. However, cultural construction, especially the traditional shadow play as Datong Shadow, was almost deserted in the economic time around us. So we take the advantage of exploring traditional culture Datong Shadow, to get students involved in promoting traditional cultural activities, and to feel the charming traditional culture in the mean time, but also allow them to participate in the promotion of socialist cultural development among the ranks. This will not only respond to the call of the party and state, but also broaden their horizons, learn the out-school knowledge. While training students in the activities on the Internet information-handling capacity, help them to lay the foundation for future e-business.

Our Computer and Internet Access
 ADSL broadband local area network Composed by three sets of computers

Sharing our works

Making web pages

Problems We Had To Overcome
　

First: the schedule is very tight. Because we are graduation students, it is not easy to interview with the heavy schoolwork. In order not to delay too much time, we must take advantage of a short period of rest time and weekends to.

Second: travel is hard. On the day to the cultural centers, we chose to ride bikes to save money. After riding, we rushed to the interview tiredly.

Third: the interviews are difficult. For further digging Datong Shadow as first-hand materials, we interviewed 62-year-old Wen Tingyuan. However, his hearing has been weak, which was resulting in some of the difficulties in the interview. We could have interviewed the shadow artist Zhou Banghui in Dongliu Village in our plan. But he was out for show, which was the biggest regret.

Fourth: to overcome the difficulties. Due to busy study of graduation year for both we and teachers, we took free time and nights to write experiences and make web pages in school. Occasionally there were difficulties; we encouraged each other and so as the teacher. Even if particularly tight, everyone was confident. More importantly, we were learned through this shadow experience in Datong, and strengthened to overcome all difficulties.

Interviews with villagers

Interviewing staff in County Museum