Biography of Grandpa S

Uncle Su was a Taiwanese who was born in 1951. He has a sister and a brother who are both younger than SuYingJian. His sister is younger than him by 1 year. There is a big age difference between his brother and him. He is closer to his sister because their ages are closer. Uncle Su’s father was a person who experienced the Japanese occupation era, and he received Japanese-style education and education of beating and scolding. Because his father received Japanese-style education, he also knows how to speak Japanese. Their family environment was considered a well-off family at that time. Uncle Su only lived with his parents and his younger siblings. He did not live with his grandparents, nor did he have a good relationship with them. He doesn’t live with his grandparents, and he doesn’t really play with his grandparents. Uncle Su is closer to his mother's relatives. Su YingJian has a son, his son already has children too.

Street scene during the Japanese occupation↓↓↓

日治時期臺北街道寫真 @ 時空旅人: 隨意窩 Xuite日誌. (n.d.). Retrieved December 6, 2022, from https://blog.xuite.net/apex.cheng/wretch/208583791

Su doesn’t really play with his brother and sister, he plays with his classmates more. He often plays marbles(彈珠) with his classmate. Uncle Su’s schoolwork is not that heavy. The school didn’t give a lot of homework for them, and they don’t really have tests often. Uncle Su doesn’t like English class. He thinks English is difficult and hard for him. When he was still at school, his father planned to let him study in Japan. But Uncle Su refused to study in Japan because he thought if he went to Japan to study, he would engage in Taiwan independence. Also, he doesn't really like Japan. So the chance to study in Japan was given to his younger brother.

Textbooks of the 1950s↓↓↓

50年代國小課本（11）爸爸捕魚去. (n.d.). Retrieved December 6, 2022, from http://cses59g.blogspot.com/2012/10/5011_28.html

Uncle Su’s job was as a handler(處理人). This is the longest job that he did. Handler is a job that goes to other people’s houses and tells them to pay for the water. One time, Uncle Su went to a person’s house to ask the person to pay money for the water. When this person saw him, he knew that Uncle Su was coming to ask him to pay money for the water. The person saw Uncle Su come, and he told Uncle Su that he won’t pay for the money, and threatened him(威胁他). Another time, a mother and daughter did not pay the water bill, so he stopped their water. Later, the mother and daughter met a bad guy in the park, and bad things happened. Uncle Su felt that he was sorry for them, so he took the mother and daughter to a shoe store opened by his friend and let them choose a pair of shoes, and give it to them. Handler was not a very safe job at that time. If you met someone who was not good at talking and had a bad temper, you might be in danger.

water meter↓↓↓

Vintage Water Meter—Etsy Taiwan. (n.d.). Etsy. Retrieved December 6, 2022, from http://www.etsy.com/market/vintage_water_meter

Uncle Su mentioned in the interview that he has a friend who has a shoe store, and he also has a friend who grows three-star green onions. With his friend's consent, Uncle Su planted passion fruit and dragon fruit in his friend's field. Uncle Su told the interviewer that he wanted to take the interviewer to visit his friend’s insoles after finishing the interview. In the future, if the interviewer went to his friend’s shoe store to buy things, he could get a discount just by telling the store his name.

Now, he lives close to the Elderly Daycare Center. Uncle Su will walk back home after leaving the Elderly Daycare Center. Sometimes he will go to his neighbor to drink Pu'er tea. Uncle Su really likes his grandson, he said that if his grandson wants something, he will try his best to satisfy his grandson.

Uncle Su is a person that is very enthusiastic, he treats people and things with enthusiasm. After the interview, he invited the interviewer to drink Pu-erh tea and went to the canteen. Uncle Su is really a very enthusiastic and easy-going elder.

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