In Taiwan there is a lot of bamboo. We got pretty good at working with bamboo (shaving it, making kites out of it) In Brazil we made bamboo kites. Just tie a few sticks together, glue paper together. The other kids were so impressed.
We moved to Tainan for the deaf school for my siblings. I was in the middle school age. We only stayed there for about 2 years before leaving for Brazil.
In Beigong the biggest holiday was the birthday of the water goddess. Beigong is a coastal town. On that day, people took the statue/shrine of the goddess and carried it around town for her to "survey" the land. People would prepare their shops for the goddess' appearance by…
Peanuts Collect small stones, rocks, dirt, twigs --> fire, burn long time. Clay, dirt, rocks burning hot. Put sweet potato into pit, and burn it up. A couple horus later, roasted sweet potatos Sugar cane: has tough skin, need knife to open (more work) sometimes we take sugarcane, smas…
For thousands of years, China had an examination system that selected and promoted promising scholars to join the upper echelons of Chinese society and the government. Examinations were first given at the city level, then the region, and finally the national level. If you made it all th…
