1.Description of “Our Community”

    Huayin city located in the eastern part of the Guanzhong plain (110 ° 5 ' East longitude, latitude 34 ° 35 '), the combination of Qin, Jin, Yu the three zones, West from XI ' an, 120 kilometers east of Luoyang 230 kilometers, South next to Qinling, North adjacent to Wei River, with a total area of 817 square kilometers, a population of 260,000. Cultural landscape and the natural landscape in the territory reflect each other, together constitute the unique rich tourism resource. Ranks as the number one of five greatest mountains, Huashan mountain is known as the “The Best Odd Mountain”, here also has Taoism culture development of a far-reaching Park Yuquan,“Shaanxi Museum” Imperial Palace West Yue Fei's temple, Wei Great Wall that built hundreds of years earlier than the Great Wall, tourist attractions are up to 210. Local famous gourmets are ravioli, steamed bread, noodle, meat caught steamed bun, cool rice noodle, jellied bean curd and so on. The most famous local folk art is Laoqiang in Huayin where is its birthplace, Zhang Ximin of the Double Spring village in Wei Yu county is known as the representative inheritor of Huayin Laoqiang.

2.Summary of Our Project

    Through interviews to Laoqiang represent inheritor old Zhang Ximin, we have a preliminary understanding of features of Laoqiang this ancient artistic folk art, learn about Huayin Laoqiang glorious history and problems of heritage development, fully aware of the importance and urgency of the the intangible cultural heritage protection, which make us feel a lot.

3.Our Computer and Internet Access

    Our school uses 10M fibre Internet access, six players do not have Internet access at home, most of work is completed in the school. Equipments in student computer room are relatively backward, the Internet is not very smooth, site content is produced in student computer room.

4.Problems We Had To Overcome?

5.Our Project Sound Bite

    Folk art is the wisdom crystallization of working people in China for thousands of years, which is a native original art, so protection of heritage and carrying forward folklore are already urgent, we admire folk artists. While our force is still very small and research level is not high, but we have delivered Huayin Laoqiang to partners around the world. Since a few months, for the sake of our common goal, we have paid hard effort, but we have more joy got back!

6.How did your activities and research for this CyberFair Project support standards, required coursework and curriculum standards?

    Our school seriously implements the spirit of quality education, actively encourages students to use their spare time to participate in social activities, takes student all-round development as the starting point and ending point, cultivates practice ability and innovative spirit, establishes correct world outlook, life outlook, value and the concept of success, which enables students to become qualified personnel who adapt to the development of socialism with Chinese characteristics.

Therefore,our research on this topic is to offer students a great deal of opportunities to practice and use of knowledge, enables students to learn more of their knowledge and experience which are not in school textbooks. Let the students be the master of learning.

Our school offers course in information technology, which is our best practice lessons, and what pleased is that through experience and the exercise of this activity, both in social interaction, sense qualities and mastery of textbook knowledge, students all have been greatly improved. We are no longer satisfied to go to look at, but more willing to participate in social activities, and results of our activities are no longer limited in the form of written materials, but more focus on social impact.

    Through this thematic research activities, we understand the Huayin Laoqiang, feeling the charm of folk art, we much more love our home---Huayin in Shaanxi Province.