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Researching Historical Background of Elderly Interviewee
By Yiler Huang
the picture of Shuangkeng in Google Map
The pictures of Shuangkeng district in Google Map is shown above. The area looked rural, and there are not much streets or roads. According to Wikipedia, the pricing standard got higher because the resources were all used in wars at that time. Therefore, it was hard for people to live a luxury life. The cities at that time were not developed very well, or they were bombed during the war. The author thinks this might be the reason why Grandma Wu's family chose to live in a rural area.
The picture of a Taiwanese farmer
This is the table of the crop produced in 1937
After 1945, the Taiwanese government revised the farming industry that was greatly damaged after World War 2. Therefore, the farming industry in Taiwan improved at that time. The government also came out with laws about owner ships of lands, and rules that helped to give laborers in farms a better treatment. There were about one third of lands in Taiwan are used for farming in 1956, and the most farmed crops are rice and sugar cane.
鄔蘇智慧 had 7 siblings (how many sister and brothers, older or younger), and they lived in a house made of mud with their parents on the top of a mountain in Shuang Keng. It takes days to get down the mountain, so she stayed on the mountain most of the time. According to the author's research, Taiwan's education for females was actually becoming common because Japanese government in 1898 cerated a female educational department in their official school Kokugo gakkou(the National Taipei University of Education now). After that, females got a lot more chances to go to school than before. However, grandma Wu still didn't go to school because her father didn't allow her to. Because she didn't go to school, she helped her family to farm their food. They farmed their food everyday. They also had animals farmed around their house, but 鄔蘇智慧 was interested in plants more than animals. This also developed her interest in horticulture in her life later. Besides planting and farming, she also liked to talk to her sister at that time, and that was one of the very few entertainment she could get.
This is the picture of Kokugo gakko at that period of time
After 1896, Kokugo gakko started providing hand make classes for females to study in and created a place for girls to study, because people at that time wanted to improved the household skills of females. The system develop from elementary school to middle school and high school, and made educations for females become more common after 1930. After 1943, all Taiwanese people had the responsibility of finish studying elementary school. However, grandma Wu's father still didn't allow her to go to school.
(missing information from young age to adult)
鄔蘇智慧's second brother brought them away from their father because they thought he wasn't a responsible father. (where did they go) (missing the part between 20 years old to now)
References
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-hant/1960%E5%B9%B4%E4%BB%A3%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3%E6%95%99%E8%82%B2%E5%8F%B2
https://tme.ncl.edu.tw/tw/%E7%B6%93%E6%BF%9F%E7%99%BC%E5%B1%95%E7%AF%87
https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/1945%E5%B9%B4%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3
https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E7%B6%93%E6%BF%9F%E5%8F%B2
https://zh.wikipedia.org/zh-tw/%E5%8F%B0%E7%81%A3%E8%BE%B2%E6%A5%AD