Introduction

Longdu Elementary School is a hundred-year-old school in a village in Kaohsiung. During the Japanese Colonial Period, it was a school of agriculture to teach farming skills. In 2004, a teacher called Huang Hong-song extended the education from campus to the fields to look for the meaning of lives in the soil with kids. Huang Wei-chen, nicknamed Ming, is a alumnus of Longdu Elementary School. He didn’t do well in school, especially in math, but he often won in all kinds of farming contests. He looks like a winner in the village, but nobody knows how hard he has worked. The documentary is filmed by two senior correspondants with experience of more than ten years, telling the life stories of two males in a farming village to revive the old values of our contemporary farming villages in Taiwan. Longdu Elementary School is situated in our old rice bin, Longdu Village. Facing the impact of time, the school has focused on the agri-food education to recover the value of the land. They walked out of the classrooms and went in the fields, and even invited old alumni on the school’s 100th anniversary to share them how it used to be during the Japanese Colonial Period.