Golden Bell Award winner Xu Duanting helps out with the first prize of RMB 10,000 in the Nanshi Tutai Language Parent-child Storytelling Competition

Nanshitu's "Taiwanese Parent-Child Storytelling Competition" has begun. School children aged 5 to 16 are invited to form teams with their parents to participate. The winner will receive a bonus of NT$10,000. (Photo courtesy of Nanshi)

The Tainan City Library's annual Taiwanese language event, the "Taiwanese Parent-Child Storytelling Contest" has begun. Hosted by Hsu Pang Ting, winner of the Golden Bell Award and host of Public Television Taiwanese Channel's "Bus Riding", students aged 5 to 16 are invited to form teams with their parents to participate. The champion team will receive a NT$10,000 bonus and a certificate.

Since its inception in 2022, the Nanshi Tu "Taiwanese Parent-Child Storytelling Competition" has attracted many parent-child teams to participate every year. From story scripts, costumes and stage props, parents can accompany their children to make up stories, practice lines, play with creativity and performances, extending Taiwanese from daily conversations to parent-child reading and performance together. The competition will be held at 9:20 am on December 5 at the B1 Reading Plaza of the Nanshi Tuxin Main Building. The total prizes and awards are more than NT$20,000.

The museum pointed out that registration for the competition is in the form of parent-child teams. Each team's performance time is limited to 6 minutes, with a maximum of 6 team members (including performers and props on and off the stage). The theme of the story is limited to folk tales, oral fairy tales or self-created stories, and adaptations from commercially available publications are not allowed. Scoring items include Taiwanese pronunciation, intonation and fluency (30%), performance skills and facial expressions (30%), theme performance (15%), modeling and prop creativity (15%), and parent-child interaction performance (10%, the proportion of children's lines or speeches must reach more than 50%).

The museum stated that online registration for the event will be open from now until 9:00 a.m. on November 24. The number of places is limited and it will be filled until it is filled. This year’s event invited Xu Duanting, winner of the 61st Golden Bell Awards Documentary Program Host Award, to host the event. With her cordial and lively hosting style, she led everyone present to experience the charm of Taiwanese language. Relevant information can be found on the official website of Nanshitu.