Known as the "Mother of Taiwan's Violin", Li Shude has devoted more than 50 years to Taiwan's string education and won the 42nd Executive Yuan Cultural Award.

(Provided by the Cultural Office of Pingtung County Government) [Reporter Tu Yingru/Report from Taipei] The Ministry of Culture announced today (7) the list of winners of the 42nd Executive Yuan Cultural Award. Outstanding figures in the arts and literature circles Li Shude, Huang Junxiong and Wu Jingji won this honor .

Minister of Culture Li Yongde congratulated the three awardees and said that the three awardees have made brilliant achievements in the fields of music education, traditional arts and performing arts. At the same time, they also took the initiative to promote Taiwan's art and culture to the world so that the world can understand the beauty of Taiwan's culture. It deserves its name for its profound contribution to the promotion and exchange of Chinese culture.

Li Shude, 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. Knowing the importance of talent cultivation, she has devoted more than 50 years to Taiwan's string education.

Li Shude has been traveling all over the country for many years, proactively looking for young talents suitable for playing the violin, patiently nurturing talented young violinists from all over Taiwan, and training many well-known violinists and scholars. Therefore, she has titles such as "Mother of Taiwan Violin", "Pioneer of Taiwan String Music Education" and "Talent Manufacture".

Li Shude was awarded the "Taiwan American Foundation Humanities Award" in 1993, the "Lifetime Achievement Award" of the "Art Education Contribution Award" of the Ministry of Education in 2015, and the second-class Jingxing Medal awarded by the President in 2017.

Huang Junxiong, the winner of the 42nd Executive Yuan Cultural Award, brought the puppetry from the inner stage to TV, and adapted his father Huang Haidai's "The Legend of Loyalty, Courage and Filial Piety" into the TV puppet show "The Confucian Man in Yunzhou", which set off a wave of puppetry in Taiwan.

(Provided by the Ministry of Culture) Huang Junxiong was born in Yunlin in 1933. Since the age of 14, he has studied puppetry with his father Huang Haidai. He has actively innovated the performance methods and techniques of puppetry during the period of domestic opera, film and television. He formed his own puppet show at the age of 19. The third troupe of Wuzhouyuan has the courage to try the reform of puppetry, and its performances have been 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, the Outstanding Contribution Award for the Promotion of Local Language by the Ministry of Education in 2010, and the Outstanding Contribution Award in 2011 Designated by the Cultural Council as the preserver of the important traditional performing art "Puppet Show", and was awarded the second-class King Star Medal by the President in 2015.

Wu Jingji, known as the promoter of Taiwanese culture, has made great contributions to the development of contemporary theater, cultural and artistic environment, artistic and academic exchanges, and performing arts team management. She won the 42nd Executive Yuan Cultural Award.

(Provided by Dr. Wu Jingji) Wu Jingji, born in Yilan in 1939, is an educator, writer, performer, and cultural affairs manager.

He has made outstanding contributions to the development of contemporary theater, cultural and artistic environment, artistic and academic exchanges, and performing arts team management. He is known as the promoter 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 to create "creativity" in various fields, giving lectures, giving lectures, participating in theater troupes, improving the cultural and artistic environment of our country, and creating art education in rural areas, so that children in rural areas have rights Get in touch with multiple theaters and make art more accessible.

Wu Jingji was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award of the 7th "Ministry of Education Art Education Contribution Award" by the Ministry of Education in 2020, and the Medal of the Cultural Association of the Ministry of Culture in 2021.

According to the Ministry of Culture, the Executive Yuan Cultural Award is the highest-level national cultural award officially sponsored by our country, in recognition of the lifelong achievements of outstanding artists and writers in our country.

Its review procedures are rigorous. First, nominations are made in writing, followed by a preliminary review in writing. With the written approval of at least three review members, it is then submitted to the review council for a final review meeting. More than two-thirds of the members attend and three-quarters of the members attend. After the approval of the above, it will be submitted to the Executive Yuan for approval, and the award ceremony will also invite the Executive Yuan to personally award cultural medals, certificates and bonuses to the recipients to show respect.

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