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"In the past, the residents living in Mazhibao were mostly engaged in straw rope weaving, rice, woolly pigs and cheese, but now, there is a large household of Chinese herbal medicine and Chinese medicine - Yiyuan Dacuo. There are also medicinal herbs, such as Jumacuo; It is full of Polygonum indigo and is named Jingpu. It is not easy to walk to the urban area, and it is not easy to find a doctor if you have a disease, so every household should know some herbs or be literate." The grandpa, who was born in 1932, slowly talked about his childhood memories with his grandpa.

Open the hydrological map of my hometown, Ma Xing Village, we can see that in the north of Fulu Stream (or Yuanlin Da Pai), it can be seen that "Yiyuan drain" is surrounded by "Shijia drain" and "Yangzai Cuo Drainage”and “Ma Xing Herbal Botanical Garden”, when the water for people’s livelihood passes through the “Shijia drain”, it is not used by the residents and flows to the “Line West Waterway”

There is no water shortage in Changhua County without a reservoir. It was not until the central water restriction in May 2021 that the residents of Changhua City and Hemei Town remembered that they all depended on Taichung's Liyutan Reservoir for water supply. Although Ma Xing Village is located at the junction of the two places, it is fortunate that there is the earliest water canal in Taiwan, the Babao Canal, where you can enjoy the rice produced by yourself and the vegetables and fruits in the village.

At the end of this year, I am very happy to cooperate with community volunteers to open the Pumen demonstration area and the medicinal herb trial production area of the "Ma Xing Herbal Botanical Garden". Babao Culture tries to cooperate with farmers in a "sustainable" way, launching "Vanilla Tea Bags" and "Babao Lemon Tea". "Responsible Marketing" and "Responsible Production" are the biggest driving force for promoting agricultural culture. Among them, Mr. Yalei’s professionalism of Pu Mennon Law and Taichung’s “Common Good Life and Labor Cooperative Society” attracted the volunteers with both systematic thinking and enthusiasm.

An unfinished story that never ends.

The 90-year-old grandpa likes to make tea. For the past 40 years, as an elderly person who can read and write locally, he has knowledge of geography and geomantic feng shui. watch. At noon, I enjoyed the episode of Fabula Loyalty Community with my grandpa. After the rich "Thousand Miles of Beef Noodles", I refreshed my taste buds with "Babao Lemon Tea" while listening to him tell stories....