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  • How did your activities and research for this Doors to Diplomacy Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?:
  The modern society’s swift development urges the need of multiple talents, the unprecedented activeness of the education is attracting more and more attention in the society, resulting of the essential-qualities-oriented education being placed on the agenda. The native soil fine arts is of great characteristic in the village arts education, especially the embroidery arts of the Tu nationality in Huzhu County, such an arts treasure house should be fully used into the rural ethnic schools’ education. The ideal arts education is to get the students absorbed themselves in the artistic environment, most importantly, is to make the knowledge full of artistic sense and entertainment, in this way, the students’ dedication can be built and their individuality developed.

  During this activity, we mainly followed the route of the Tu embroidery representative artisan Li Faxiu in Huzhu County nicknamed “town of rainbow,” together with the local teaching, bringing the embroidery arts into school. The students thus could appreciate the marvelous embroidery works, get the sense of the greatness and profoundness of it and learn more of its cultural connotation. All of these above were done not by only us but countless respectable teachers and lovely students. Our thanks also go to the people who are always ready to offer us help and support. Also, we deeply learnt the importance of the team spirit and communication skills for promoting the folk culture.

  
  • What information tools & technologies did you used to complete your CyberFair project?:
  Hardware: Computer, Digital camera
  Software: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Microsoft Word, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, ACDSee,QQ
  Network:E-mail, FTP, Broadband networks( 1M )


   •In what ways did you act as "ambassadors" and spokespersons for your CyberFair project both on-line and in person.:
  It is our great honor to promote Grandma Li’s persistent pursuit on passing on the traditional embroidery arts which represents the Tu embroidery cultural of Huzhu County, as the role of “folk cultural ambassador”, we are obliged to promote and make the Tu embroidery arts and culture known to more people and be loved by them.
  We also will not forget that, at the time we were about to give up searching the right people that has passion on embroidery, it was all because of teacher Mr. Guo helped to find and meet Grandma Li Faxiu, the representative inheritor of the national intangible heritage-- the Tu coiled embroidery. We were touched by Grandma Li’s persistent pursuit on embroidery arts. We wish that, in the technology era, the Tu embroidery have a promising future that it can go on and far instead of being lost and distorted.

  • What has been the impact of your project on your community?:
  Grandma Li Faxiu was a born and bread rural woman, she studied embroidery at the age of seven or eight from her mother, and spent over 40 years studying it, today she is still on her way contributing what she can do for the embroidery development.
  To prevent the Tu embroidery arts being lost, under the great support and assistance from the local government, Grandma Li launched a Tu embroidery arts training class. Up till now, over 800 apprentices have joint the class, and Grandma Li, at the age of more than 50, still presents the training in the class, to share with them and promote the Tu embroidery.
  During the research and edition of this special feature, through our communication with Grandma Li about the embroidery, we were touched by her contribution and imbued with the importance of preserving and developing Chinese traditional folk arts. We are here to call on more and more people to do something for the culture perseverance and development. We should learn from Grandma Li and be proud of her as well as the Tu embroidery culture.

  • Explanations on the intellectual property rights:
  All the contents in this website were sorted out and edited from the relative books, website reference and historic materials, with the respect of the property rights, all the references were remarked in the “reference materials.” All the photos and videos were recorded on our own.

  • Discoveries, Lessons and Surprises:
  Considering the shadowy present and the promising prospects of the Tu embroideries market, Huzhu County listed the coiled embroidery into one of the local tourism products and offered great support in policy and finance. Seeing the potential business chances from it, the rural women have already studied the embroidery and did improve a lot, the works made by them have been used greatly ranging from clothes to statues, wall hangings, columns hold, quilt cover and the other, building the Tu's coiled embroidery works into special artistic products. It was witnessed the Tu embroidery’s refreshing vitality and it was believed to be better.
  Through this website and the power of Net Fair, the Chinese Tu embroidery culture to be displayed and get known by more people, we do hope you can join to care about it and pass on it through out the world, make it shining in its distinctive way.