A military man who retired and took up rice farming took home the title of “champion rice” at a competition in Kaohsiung yesterday.
Retired sergeant major Wu Chang-kuei (巫璋貴) was named the winner at a ceremony in Meinong District (美濃), at which a special screening of The People in the Field was shown, a documentary about farmers in Meinong made by Hakka TV.
Five people advanced from the first round of the competition, in which farmers’ fields and the quality of their rice were judged.
The results of the final round were announced by Meinong Farmers’ Association head of staff Chung Ching-hui (鍾清輝)
By Huang Hsu-lei and Liu Tzu-hsuan / Staff reporter, with staff writerA military man who retired and took up rice farming took home the title of “champion rice” at a competition in Kaohsiung yesterday.
Kaohsiung’s Hakka Affairs Commission yesterday held a ceremony to honor late activist and author Chung Tie-min (鍾鐵民) and his father, celebrated Hakka writer Chung Li-ho (鍾理和).
At the ceremony at the Meinong District (美濃) public library in Kaohsiung, the commission also unveiled a bronze bust of Chung Tie-min, who was known for documenting the changes that occurred in rural Taiwan.
“Chung Li-ho was one of the most important Taiwanese writers in the post-war period. You can understand the changes Taiwan went through by reading his books,” commission chairman Yang Jui-hsia (楊瑞霞) said.
Chung Li-ho was born in Pingtung in 1915, but