Datong Elementary School students play music for buffaloes, which is worthy of the name "playing the piano to cows".

(Photo by reporter Xu Lijuan)

[Reporter Xu Lijuan/Kaohsiung Report] Today (25th) coincides with the holiday of the Ching Ming Festival, Datong Elementary School in Kaohsiung City, in order to prevent the children from being "unhappy" in making up classes on Saturdays, specially arranged Children's Day activities, and brought buffaloes into the campus to carry out Rural cultural education, arrange activities such as playing the piano with cows, sketching, making cow dung incense, etc., so that everyone can have a different Children's Day.

This morning, Datong Elementary School specially cooperated with the farmer's "Duo La La Cattle Farming Team" to bring a buffalo "Lala" from Xizhou, Changhua to the campus, which surprised the school children who can see the buffalo at close range. The activity Among them, Lan Yuyang, a first-year student, especially played the song "Let's Go in a Hot Air Balloon" on the electronic piano, and some children played the violin and recorder, a veritable "playing the piano against the cow". They also invited the elders of Datong Fule School to have fun , carry out life education in rural areas through communication between young and old.

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The owner Gao Yixin said that the 10-year-old buffalo "Lala" is one of the only two buffaloes in the local area. He will keep the buffalo for farming. It seems to be slowly approaching from a place that can be seen directly in front of it. When feeding grass, also remember to let the buffalo eat when it eats in the mouth, so as to avoid tug-of-war with the cow and cause mutual injury.

At the event site, the students were also instructed to mix the dried and ground buffalo dung with water to make cow dung for incense. They also told the children that a mature buffalo eats about 50 kg a day and emits nearly 30 kg of dung In the past, in order to reduce agricultural waste, farmers used cow dung as fuel for cooking and boiling water.

He also explained that incense is the most natural and harmless insect repellent because it is the most natural and harmless insect repellent. The children had a great time playing with it. Li Yuanzhen, a sixth grader, exclaimed again and again: "It turns out that cow poop doesn't stink at all!"

Chen Yongzhen, the principal of Datong Elementary School, said that he looks forward to bringing buffalo Lala into the campus to carry out food and agriculture education and life education in a lively way, to experience the rural culture in the era of grandpa and grandma, and to teach students to interact with cattle in the correct way. Establish the ecological value of mutual benefit, symbiosis, co-existence, and co-prosperity between humans and animals, and land for school children in the metropolitan area, so that the environmental balance will last for generations to come.

The children feed the buffalo to graze and get close to the buffalo.

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Under the guidance of the teacher, students learn to use dried and sterilized cow dung molds to make cow dung incense.

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Students draw a buffalo with pen and paper.

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