Flying Over the Hakka Village: Old Farmer x New Tricks

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Guansi Township of Hsinchu has been known as the "Town of Longevity" in Taiwan since the Japanese colonization period. It's home to more than a dozen centenarians and many farmers who are over 70 years of age. Instead of drying sheaves of rice by machine, the senior farmers adopted an old-fashioned, time and energy-consuming, rice-drying method from Japan, all for making the rice taste better.


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Flying Over the Hakka Village

(English/Mandarin subtitles can be enabled in player subtitle settings.) Fan Wen-fang is a Hakka poet. He has been an enthusiastic participant in Hakka mother tongue creation, teaching, and writing in Hakka for many years, and often writes academic papers on Hakka language, history, and songs in H