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    County government greeted people and said welcome to the World Book Day on April 23. On April 18, the Nantou contact office of TCBC foundation held a thousand people reading classics activity. There were 500 students involved to read on-site and 15 schools coming from the whole county to join the reading classics activity through instant e-learning. Once the activity began, 22 Jhang-Sing Elementary School students started reading a recital of Li-Po’s poetry Farewell to Meng Hao-Jan at Yellow Crane Tower. They combined their reading classics with crosstalk and Performing Arts. They showed the world their excellent creativity.

    CM Mr. Lin Ming-Chen said in order to respond to the activity on World Book Day, the event starts with the “Thousand People Reading Classics Activity.” It was considered the starting point to welcome to the World Book Day in 2016. Hopefully, parents can take their kids here to read classics together so the students are allowed to build good reading habit. As a result, a humanistic environment can be created in the country everywhere you go and you can find people reading, so that the entire inner quality of the people can be improved. On the other hand, moral education should be started from everyday living. Each student can be a somebody who contributes to society after they go into the workplace if they can read classics.

    The activity started with former CM Mr. Lin Yuan-Lang, CM Lin, Peng Ya-Ling, and 21 principals who led the students to read The Rules for Students. Lin Yuan-Lang also gave the manuscript of this poetry to each junior high school and elementary school in the county so that this manuscript can be stored and distributed in the library collection. The county government called upon SURU Corp. Chairman Lin Fang-Ju to donate 60,000 copies of the poetry in color print and distribute the coloring book to all county faculty members. County Councilor Chang Wei-Hua, Liao Chih-Cheng, Tseng Chen-Yen, and Lai Yen-Hsueh all attended the meeting to join in the activity to read classics.

    After that, the JSES performance began with 2 students doing a crosstalk. They introduced the poetry as the story background. While reciting the poetry, the rest of the 20 students used their body parts to dance and act out the scenery in the following poetry. They performed these scenes as you found in the line, “My old friends said goodbye to the west, here at Yellow Crane Tower,” and this line, “In the third month's cloud of willow blossoms, he's going down to Yangzhou.” In addition, the scene and mood they presented was found in this line, “The lonely sail is a distant shadow, on the edge of a blue emptiness.”

    Instructor Huang Hui-Ying there was only 2 weeks before starting the performance after receiving a notice to perform. All performing style and dance arrangement were coming from student’s ideas. Through combining reading classics with performing arts, students are allowed to show their confidence and creativity through acting. JSES Student Tsai Cheng-Po and Wang Chi-Min pointed out that reading such classics The Rules for Students allows them to understand how it is so important to treat one another courteously. They can also be more concentrated on their studies by reading classics.