The Boat Bookstore of the Wuhai Family, the small study of Wu Xiaomei and Chunyang fishing Port

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(by Zhang Yayun, a special correspondent from upstream and downstream)

Walking along the Nanao fishing Port Road, which is full of seafood shops, the shopkeeper greeted the eager scramble for customers. The shop owner who passed the eel dried fluttering almost came to the end of the store, under the mottled big horizontal sign "Sanxing Fish can Store". There is a family with green leaves, wooden cabinet benches, bookcase poster shelves, and several small shops with "Chunyang" written on them. The sunken facade has no eye-catching signboard. If you are not careful, it is easy to miss it. This is the small study of Chunyang fishing Port, which is looming in the city.

In Chunyang, the person in charge, Wu Hsiao-mei, made use of her mother-in-law's dowry desk as the theme book area for reading on the ground, which was recommended by Wu Xiaomei. The relevant books published in Southern Australia were quietly displayed on the table. One of the volumes was "the fishing Port experience of ─ 's wife in Southern Australia," written by Wu Xiaomei. Under the soft lighting in the room, it seemed to emit a glimmer of "read me, read me."

Photography / Zhang Yayun Ajie's wife, the clearance code for local affection.

The introduction to wife, written by Hu Taili, a well-known anthropologist in 1982, has left a record of Taiwan's local cultural changes and female figures. If we take the role of "wife" as a perspective to see and know the place, it seems to have the bondage of traditional culture, but it virtually opens up a new possibility of internal and external dialogue.

Wu Xiaomei, a former interview director of contemporary design magazine, married to Southern Australia in 1997. in the first decade, he never really integrated into the mainstream society of Southern Australia, that is, fishermen and their surrounding communities. "after living for 10 years, I am still a nobody." only my family knows my last name and name. Wu Xiaomei made several serious introductions, but the other party still couldn't remember. In the end, Wu Xiaomei chose a simple and easy-to-understand nickname ─ "Ah Jie Tsai's wife."

Because father-in-law Chen Jie is a retired fisherman with a successful career and a local celebrity, local people have also heard of the family background of "Ah Jie Tsai" (Chen Jie's father, Chen Donghai, was chairman of the fishing Association of Taiwan Province and a member of Ilan County). Newspaper "Ah Jie Tsai's wife" can often help Wu Xiaomei win each other's trust in a very short period of time.

Write about Southern Australia, the beginning of really entering the place.

In 2007, under the design of Huang Shuying, a good friend community worker, Wu Xiaomei vaguely agreed to write records in Nanhai Australia. "the next job was mainly driven by a sense of responsibility, which was so strong that it overwhelmed the 'guilt' that existed at the same time." For Wu Xiaomei, that responsibility is actually responsible for herself, because after 10 years of marriage, she is still ignorant of everything in Nanhai Australia and feels that she is "very failing." so that writing has a special meaning to help her really enter Nanhai Australia.

In one interview after another, Wu Xiaomei met many interesting professionals in many places from the perspective of his wife in Southern Australia. It starts with the story of his father-in-law, "─ Chen Jie, retired fisherman of large purse seine", followed by "retired fishing net master ─ Cai Xiuji", "fishing boat declaration veteran ─ Lin Baozhu", "coastal small fishery retired boatman ─ Lan Wenda", "pickling net fishery current captain ─ Wang Fulong", "the only remaining dart pole master ─ Zhang Bailin", "retired shipbuilder ─ Huang Amao" And "─ Wu Ming, developer of new patented fishing gear". Through the collection of character stories, these various industries around the fishing industry in Southern Australia have become more three-dimensional and distinct.

Wu Xiaomei and the written Life of Haihai (Photo courtesy of Wu Xiaomei) Chunyang, a boat bookstore with family and local sense

Failed to catch up with her husband's all-powerful history of fishing glory, because of her love of books, so Wu Xiaomei used "Chunyang fishing Port small study" to express her identity with the family and Southern Australia. The "Chunyang" is the name of father-in-law Wu Xiaomei's old fishing boat. As the name of the study shop, it may imply that the Chunyang, which does not catch fish, continues to guard the fishing port, conveying the smell of books, local customs, and industrial changes.

When you enter the Chunyang, the first thing you can see is the wooden rudder on the door panel of the 1976 Chunyang, which hangs on the door panel like the Chunyang continues to turn. If the door of the study is not yet open, you can ring the clock on the upper right of the door, which is the signal clock on the dart fish boat in the past. Wu Xiaomei made good use of the "waste" left by ship dismantling, and the supplies once on board, such as ship lights, fish lights, big fishing flags, fishing nets, anchors, and so on, have become the scenery in the study.

Enter the study, carefully observe the colors on the wall, there are blue, yellow, green, red, those colors seem to be familiar. Wu Xiaomei said: "these colors come from the painted patterns that can be used on fishing boats, and the layout of the study is discussed jointly with my designer friends."

Chunyang small study (Photography / Zhang Yayun)

The color language in Chunyang comes from fishing boat elements (Photography / Zhang Yayun)