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Activity’s subject
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Interview Dakeng Cultural
Association—aunt Siujhen Guo
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Activity’s place
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Dakeng Cultural Association
Office
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Time
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8:00~10:00, Monday, January 8th,
2007
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Attending members
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Sihen Chen, Yiling Ke, Yawen Lin,
Yinsyuan Liao, Yajhu Hu, Yijie Huang, Shuyuan Jhang, Weiling Chen,
Zihsing Huang, Teacher Huijhen Cai, Teacher Bijhu Li, Teacher Peishan
Jhen
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Content of Interview
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Question:
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Excuse me, Aunt Guo. When was
Dakeng Cultural Association established?
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Answer:
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It was established in 2004. But
we have engaged in the community service since 2001.
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Question:
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What is the main purpose of
establishing Dakeng Cultural Association?
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Answer:
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We mainly do the Community
Renaissance Program, or called CRP for short. CRP has established almost
eleven years. It delveops later than the other country, but Dakeng
Cultural Associaton was built earlier in Taichung. The main job is to
design Dakeng community empowerment. There are five villages in Dakeng
and each of them has a community developmental association to provide
people the tour guide services of Dakeng’s nature, ecology, humanity,
tourism and sightseeing.
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Question:
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How is the organization of
Dakeng Cultural Association going?
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Answer:
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In the organization we chose twelve Members of Board. The
Member of Board chose Executive Supervisors. Then the executive
supervisors would vote for the Director General and the Executive
Director. The organization is as the same as the Civil Organization. They
all belong to Social Affairs Bureau, Taichung City Government.
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Question:
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How can you get the working
staff?
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Answer:
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We are all volunteers. We are
housewives, retired teachers and retired civil servants, etc. Like me, I
was the voulunteer because of the interest.
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Question:
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Are the working staff the locals in Dakeng?
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Answer:
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Most of them are the locals, but
we are not restricted to be. All the people who live in Taichung City can
be our members.
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Question:
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What have you done in these
recent years?
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Answer:
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“Research on Heping Village Developmental History.” We
held the “bamboo children toy” by Council for Cultural affairs, so we
trained a group of people who were expert in bamboo art and ecological
presenters. We also published the “Tour guide to Walking Trail No.5 of
Dakeng,” which was organized by the volunteers through the field study.
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Question:
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Why did you make the “Tour guide
to Walking Trail No.5 of Dakeng” only?
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Answer:
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Taiwanese mountains are mostly
caused by the earthquake—the earht’s
crust compressed each other. Walking Trail No.3-4 are
exposed, so they would collapse easily because of the risky landform. In
addition, only some specific plants can grow there, so there are not many
tall plants. Walking Trail No.5 is on the crest line where there are
plentiful fagaceae Species and Beech Species etc. That’s why we made the “Tour
guide to Walking Trail No.5 of Dakeng” only.
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Question:
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What is the current work?
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Answer:
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The association would plan the schedule of the next year
each year. The main work this year is to do “the reasearch on the temple
distributions.” There are total seventy temples—twenty to thirty temples
and more than forty Fude temples.
There are many kinds of temples such as Taoism, buddhism
and Yiguandao etc. Each religion has many factons. So far, we have invited
the specialists to do the inner training for the volunteers so that they
can have a deeper understanding of the temples and the gods. After that,
the volunteers start to do the research and will publish the book this
February.
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Question:
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Are there any promotions?
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Answer:
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Yes. There are many activities
such as bamboo children toys, Earthquake Park, Jhengjyue temple, Fude
temple, tabaccobarn, tō sat ang etc. They are unique
and are promoting.
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Question:
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What is the most representative?
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Answer:
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The most representative activity
is “ Dakeng’s nostalgic pictures exhibition” by the nearby elementary students
at the moment.
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Question:
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Does Dakeng Cultural Association
belong to the government or the private organization?
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Answer:
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We belong to the Civil
Organization, a non-profit organization.
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Question:
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Where does the budget come from?
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Answer:
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The association would plan a
project first and apply for the budget from the government. If the
project is passed, then we can get the budget; if not, then we can’t get
the money.
Before Dakeng Cultural
Association was established, the volunteers had to pay their own money to
do the activities from 2001~2004.
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Question:
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What do think to promote Dakeng
effectively?
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Answer:
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We can focus on “ Eco-industrial
tourism” to get an effective promotion.
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Question:
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Where can be the representative
attractions?
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Answer:
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1.The old maple trees. 2. Macaque
Park. 3. Guangsi Suspension Bridge.
The maple tree in the Circle is the landmark of Dakeng. The
old farmers also take the bushy maples as an index of the harvest.
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Question:
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Who can we interview?
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Answer:
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The local old residents and a
councilor, Jhaorong Zeng, who paid much effort for Dakeng and helped us apply for many budgets.
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