Known as the "Mother of the Taiwan Violin", Li Shude has devoted herself to string music education in Taiwan for more than 50 years.

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[Reporter Tu Yingru/Taipei Report] my country's highest-level national cultural award "Executive Yuan Cultural Award" was officially sponsored by the Ministry of Culture. Yesterday, the Ministry of Culture announced the list of winners for the 42nd session. Outstanding figures in the arts and literature circles Li Shude, Huang Junxiong and Wu Jingji won this honor .

Wu Jingji, known as the promoter of Taiwanese culture, has made great contributions to the development of contemporary theater, the cultural and artistic environment, artistic and academic exchanges, and the management of performing arts teams.

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Known as the "Mother of the Taiwan Violin", Li Shude was born in Pingtung in 1929, went to the United States to study in 1957, and returned to Taiwan to teach after obtaining a master's degree in violin music in 1964. She has devoted more than 50 years to Taiwan's string education and cultivated talents Numerous, have been running around the country for many years, looking for young talents suitable for playing the violin, and have cultivated many well-known violinists and scholars. They have made outstanding contributions to the development of Taiwanese music and the promotion of international visibility. In 1993, they won the "Taiwan American Foundation Humanities Award" and 2015. In 2017, he was awarded the "Lifetime Achievement Award" of the "Art Education Contribution Award" by the Ministry of Education. In 2017, he was awarded the second-class King Star Medal by the President.

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Huang Junxiong brought the inner Taiwan puppet show to the TV, and adapted his father Huang Haidai's "The Legend of Loyalty, Courage, Xiaoyi" into the TV puppet show "The Confucian Man in Yunzhou", which set off a wave of puppetry in Taiwan.

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Huang Junxiong, a national treasure of puppetry, was born in Yunlin in 1933. He started to learn puppetry with his father Huang Haidai at the age of 14. He actively innovated the performance methods and techniques of puppetry during the period of domestic opera, film and television. At the age of 19, he organized Wuzhou Garden The third troupe bravely attempted the reform of puppetry, and its performances were widely acclaimed. Not only did the puppet show shine in Taiwan, but in 1958, it participated in the French Cannes Film Festival with the puppetry film "Journey to the West".

Since the 1970s, Huang Junxiong adapted the traditional puppet show into a TV puppet show, setting off the peak of Taiwan's TV puppet show performance. Among them, "Yunzhou Daru Xia Shi Yanwen" became popular all over the country, and "watching Shi Yanwen in front of TV" has also become a common memory of Taiwanese.

Huang Junxiong won the 37th TV Golden Bell Awards Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002 - Special Award, the 10th National Arts Award - Puppet Artist in 2006, was awarded the Outstanding Contribution Award by the Ministry of Education in 2010 for promoting local languages, and in 2011 won the Designated by the Cultural Council as the preserver of the important traditional performing art "Puppet Show", in 2015, he was awarded the second-class King Star Medal by the President.

Born in 1939, Wu Jingji is an educator, text creator, performing arts worker, and cultural affairs manager. All have made outstanding contributions and are known as the promoters of Taiwanese culture.

In 1977, Wu Jingji, Jin Shijie and others took over Gengxin Experimental Theater Troupe (later renamed Lanling Theater Workshop), bringing back the experience and training methods of La MaMa Experimental Theater Workshop to Taiwan, integrating Eastern and Western theater elements with life experience in Taipei, and creating an actor as a The main concept of theater has had a profound impact on the development of Taiwan's contemporary theater.

Wu Jingji positions herself as an "educator without walls", helping create "creativity" in various fields, and pioneering art education in rural areas.

In 2020, he won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 7th "Ministry of Education Art Education Contribution Award" by the Ministry of Education, and in 2021, he won the Medal of the Cultural Association of the Ministry of Culture.

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