Wu Cheng-hung (吳正宏), 77, is the 23rd generation of a line of potters that started in Cizao town (磁灶鎮) in 5th century China. His grandfather, Wu Ji (吳及, 1878 to 1949), left Cizao at the end of the Qing dynasty to make a living in Taiwan, bringing the coiling technique and kick wheel technology practiced […]
dangling hands
Go to the parks dotted around Taipei, or other towns and cities around Taiwan And you will likely see,
eggshell
Taipei Times article Taipei Times photo page Wu Yao-cheng (吳要城), 84, holds up a white porcelain bowl to the window in his studio home in Yingge District (鶯歌), New Taipei City. It is painted inside with auspicious symbols and outside in a scene of monkeys. Wu didn’t paint it: his specialty is making […]
南園
Wouldn’t it have been nice, I was thinking to myself at the end of a day at the Nanyuan Land of Retreat and Wellness (南園人文客棧), if we had been completely free to walk among the traditional southern Chinese Jiangnan-style architecture, roaming at our own leisure through the rooms tastefully decorated with carved scenes of […]
sleepy town
A trip to a temple town to thank the goddess for help finding a job. The last time we were here it was packed. The annual pilgrimage. This time the hot sun cast its shadows on empty streets, and we had time to look at houses lining the temple approach.
茶壺山
Not far from the popular tourist destination of Jioufen in New Taipei City, just past the Jioufen Gold Mine Museum and through the parking lot, a path leads up to a prominent outcrop. Some feel this outcrop resembles a teapot. Whether it does or not is entirely up to your own interpretation.
kids
baishatun matsu 白沙屯媽祖
Baishatun’s Gong Tian Temple was already packed with pilgrims late afternoon when we arrived. The pilgrimage was due to start at half past midnight. We were waiting in the space between the main altar and the stationary palanquin in which Matsu would soon set off for Beigang.
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