Fall in love with the land for 21 years. "female farmer Li Baolian went to Lishan, worked as a farmer to comfort the injured earth, and practiced" returning the foolish woman to the mountain ".

4 sharing

On the eve of the Dragon Boat Festival, a heat wave of more than 37 degrees hit Taiwan, and Lishan, which is 2,000 meters above sea level, still maintained a pleasant 21 degrees. Li Baolian, a female farmer, ushered in the 21st watermelon plum harvest season in Ah Bao Orchard, with plums covered with white fruit powder hanging all over the branches, like rubies wrapped in tulle.

Along with the watermelon plum house matching into the hands of consumers, there is also the concept of Abao Kenshan. At that time, when I went to Lishan, I only wanted to "take myself as a lamp" and rely on my hands to support myself and my ideas. over the past 21 years, female farmer Ah Bao has become a spiritual indicator of friendly agriculture. Faced with this farming examination paper, Po said with a smile, "I believe my grades are worthy of me."

Using the farming method of friendly land, the watermelon plum in Apao Orchard has had another bumper harvest this year. (photo / Yang Yuyun) A biography of female farmers begging mountains: a vigorous love for mountains and rivers

Ilan Dongshan is the hometown of Ah Bao, a female farmer. With seven children drawn by their farming parents, it is conceivable that the financial burden is heavy. Fortunately, Po, who ranked sixth, did well in her schools. when she was admitted to high school and college, her family plans gradually improved, so she successfully embarked on the road to further study, so she didn't have to bury her youth in the factory as early as her brothers and sisters did.

It may be because he grew up in a large family and lacked personal space for a long time, Po always longed for freedom to be alone. During the summer vacation when she was admitted to college, she traveled around the island on a Yangchun bike; during her three summer vacations at the university, she walked across the north, the middle, and the south respectively; then she began to climb the mountains in the wind, send feelings to the mountains, and write wilderness poems among the majestic mountains of Taiwan. She said that she had a "vigorous and unswerving love" for the mountains and rivers. The wind, snow, deer and cypress in the mountains often repeat to her something she has increasingly understood: how extravagant and precious the solitude of nature is!

Po, who loves mountains and rivers, later worked as a commentator in Taroko National Park. this job opened up Po's environmental awareness, hoping to take care of this beautiful land wholeheartedly. It is a pity that the National Park Service, set up in the name of conservation, has something to do with the environment. in addition, although Po is enthusiastic about his work and keeps adding coal to the train, he finally finds out that the direction of the train is not where she wants to go. she needs to reposition her life. "the answer may be in the unknown," she thought. " So she hit the road again after two years of work, but this time she went farther, longer and more meaningful.

Travel for a year and a half and realize that labor is the foundation of human beings.

Po set off with NT $100,000 and a ticket to Hong Kong. The train from Hong Kong was transferred to Guangzhou and Sichuan, and then, for the next five months, on bicycles, donkeys and feet, all the way to Lhasa, then to Nepal and India, during which the Rongbu Temple in China and Lukla in Nepal visited the base camp of Mount Qomolangma twice, north and south, to see the sanctity and beauty of Mount Qomolangma. During this one-and-a-half-year tour, Po endured all kinds of hardships. But what makes her ashamed of boasting is that this experience is accompanied by too much inner unease!

The 100,000 yuan travel fee is the salary Ah Bao earns as a commentator. For her, it is the salary earned by opening a mouth. There is no real work at all, but she has the freedom to run away. Moreover, she can roam for a long time on other people's land with cheap food, accommodation and transportation, accept free care from people from other places, and even smile the female wheat workers in Kashmir with a jar of ordinary face cream. Po knows that all kinds of superior positions are actually based on unfairness, and the more she takes advantage of others, she cannot feel at ease.

Po originally wanted to find her relationship with herself and the world while wandering, but because of the differences she witnessed during the journey, she had to ask the logic of the world. Those Tubo, Nepalese and Kashmiris who are self-sufficient in land will never be able to travel abroad for a while as Po did. Is it because they are lazy and stupid? Po knew that she was a fundamental imbecile in their daily life and labor, and that she felt very inferior and took advantage of the world by exchanging money for the fruits of their actual work.

"unless I prove that I can support myself with both hands, there will be a big missing piece of my self-identity." Po thinks so.