Qimei Social University / rural areas are setbacks and nutrients, how to make efforts to live out themselves? The story of two mothers

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(Huang Xiangyun / tr. by Phil Newell)

Do you have any imagination about the countryside? Beautiful pastoral scenery, full of human feelings, must come here after retirement? Some people have had farming experience, perhaps the countryside for his body, there are countless traces of labor; some people have never lived in the countryside, but have been to the countryside. Everyone has his own understanding of the countryside, and there is no definite answer to this question. However, the people living here, they constitute an important existence in rural areas, their lives are dependent on rural areas, how do they live in rural areas?

When Hong Jingwen first arrived in the countryside, he was frustrated: "do you want to live a life like this?"

Hung Ching-wen is a lecturer on "Rainbow from the Land" at Chi Mei Social University. talking about her story, she said, "two hours is not enough for me to tell!" Jingwen, who originally lived in downtown Kaohsiung and worked in the electronic processing industry, was an ordinary office worker who married in 76 and lived in the urban area for the first two years after marriage until the birth of her first child, after which she was taken care of by her mother-in-law, and then in order to take care of the children nearby, her husband's family was in Meinung, so he set foot in the countryside.

After arriving at my husband's house, there are many bottlenecks in family life, but in order to raise children, we have to make money. There are not many job opportunities in the countryside, so we can do everything we can. For example, he is known as an accountant, but he can only do many other non-accountant things at the same time, such as pouring tea, cleaning toilets and even cooking.

He has also sold pearl milk tea and served as a warehouse manager in front of the school. Because there are so many boys, he has trained his own drinking capacity. When I first arrived in Meinung, I spent most of my time on family and work, but I couldn't understand the Hakka dialect, so it was very difficult to make friends, and I was often bullied. I had a hard time, and at the same time I asked myself, "do you want to live like this?"