As a Xizhou resident, Mr. Cheng Wu's love for this land always arouses our deep admiration. So, after visiting Pure Garden and interviewing him, we decided to join him and turn the sparks in our hearts into practical actions. Here are our strategies and concrete methods:

II. Environmental advocacy

Advocate to classmates

Advocate to teachers

Advocate to foreigners

Advocate to residents

Advocate tree planting, tree-loving and natural farming methods as well as the influence of tree planting on us. Global warming is caused by the increase in carbon dioxide emissions in recent years, and we can use tree planting to reduce carbon dioxide. Meanwhile, trees themselves can also release oxygen to make our environment better. In the process, we also met people from different countries. We tried to explain to them our idea of planting trees in English, so as to spread the idea of tree plant outside Taiwan.

III. Practice

Students participate in planting trees in schools and communities, and carry out the natural farming method in Xiyang Happy Farm.

(1) Actual planting

Mr. Cheng Wu asked us to take the saplings back to the campus for cultivation. While digging the soil, we sometimes would dig up stones, but managed to solve the problem and then put the trees in the hole. During the process, we worked together and enjoyed the feeling of accomplishment when the tree was finally planted. We experienced the hardship of planting trees, but also learned the spirit of teamwork. It also changed our mindset about planting. We started to love planting trees and getting close to nature.

 (2) Tree-planting reflections

As we had no clue at all about how to plant trees, we could only follow the instructions of teachers. We originally thought it was easy to dig soil, but it turned out that digging soil also requires skills. For example, it needs great strength, or to add some water to make the soil moist and easier to dig out. As green hands, we were not so good at this task. But we still learnt a lot and could experience the hardships that farmers experience every day. Although it’ s our first time to cultivate a small tree，after the teacher's guidance, we made progress slowly. Although the process is a bit difficult, it brought us so deep sense of achievement when we saw the small tree standing in the soil.

IV. Websites about loving and planting trees and natural farming

V. New Concept of Green Energy: Carbon Rights

After the Kyoto Protocol came into effect, “carbon rights” have become a valuable physical commodity. Enterprises or countries can trade reduced or unused carbon dioxide emissions into the market, forming a new carbon trading market, which transformed abstract environmental concepts into financial commodities that can be actually priced in economy. As the advanced countries have to pay high costs for reduction of carbon emission, they can sell the carbon rights to developing or backward countries, thereby reaching the global total emission control. The reduced carbon emissions can be obtained by certain means, which can be sold in the market after being internationally certified.


Source: https://www.inside.com.tw/article/12230-green-industry-dictonary

VI. Cheng Wu’s works

Cheng Wu adheres to his creative concept of “writing about Taiwanese people, narrating Taiwanese matters, painting Taiwanese scenery and expressing Taiwanese feelings". His works are not limited to expressing emotions in local dialects, but more importantly, he uses such local emotions to depict the ecology of the villagers and speak for the people around him. His poems are full of his deep love for the local land and for the life. His works are not improvised feelings forgotten immediately afterwards, nor are they expressions under patterns like technique and expressionism. Instead, they are revelation of deep feelings that are brewed again and again. The ardent passions contained in the poems can still touch our hearts and stir our spirits.

Peasant Woman

The book Peasant Woman contains 41 proses composed by Cheng Wu, which describes what happened in life and the countryside from the past to the present, as well as the farmers' sedulous struggles. The two peasant women, mother and wife, are depicted throughout each essay, who are self-disciplined and hardworking, full of love and fight for raising us. It uses passionate words to straightforwardly acknowledge this land with deep care for our countryside. It takes nature and real society as the literary basis and is very sincere and moving.

Notes about Zhuoshui River

It is a detailed description of the various looks of Zhuoshui River basin that viewed the beauty of nature in different angles. It also criticized improper behaviors, making readers better understand the inseparable relationship between the ecological maintenance of mountains, forests and rivers and our moral behaviors. After all, rivers, like the mother of the earth, breed millions of lives and nourish the treasures on which all things depend. Cherishing them is the duty and responsibility of Taiwanese and also a subject that Taiwanese should learn.

Words to the Children

This book was originally about how the author educated his children, and therefore is full of a father's love for his children. Every word and every line of the book represents the father’s earnest expectation for his children. The parents discipline their children with an indoctrinating tone just like enlightening themselves, showing their sincere intention of protecting us from being contaminated by bad habits.

My Hometown Impression

My Hometown Impression describes the fate of farmers’ village life and their feelings of living alongside the mountains and forests. Although the farmers depend on the weather to live, they reveal a kind of indomitable spirit. That is, whatever they face, they would give their greatest strength for the sake of their family. Such a tenacious spirit is worth our learning.

Sweet Burden: Cheng Wu's Poetry-Essay Duet

This publication is a Vietnamese translation of Cheng Wu’s poems and articles about the land and environmental issues. A bi-lingual version in Vietnamese and Chinese are also published. It is hoped that this book will arouse the interest of Vietnamese readers and promote literary exchanges between the two sides in order to enhance mutual understanding.