Monday, 22 August 2016

Artist Jiehui Xu sweat when farmers

Father, we come and picture bananas, you stand in front, leading man for you! "Jiehui Xu took 88-year old father to stand under the banana trees, make dad smile from ear to ear, eye across the lens, going back a bunch of green bananas:" banana pick it! ”

Xindian river around straight lake water purification plant, located several villa houses, more than 40 years ago, here is a whole villages and paddy fields of a triad society, Jiehui Xu spent his childhood here less than 10 years old. Every afternoon, he and his brother carried a bamboo basket, sending salty porridge into his fields to grandparents for dessert.

But in 1973, the Taipei City Government to settlement land for the construction of the pond water purification plants, tens of thousands of households to move out, Jiehui Xu also had to leave the yard's childhood with his family. In the urban jungle adventure many years later, he is back here again, along with dad, MOM and sometimes, on the "home" of Earth.

In fact, Jiehui Xu "good farming" it in showbiz news, on his Facebook page, he and his "attic farm" always have the freshest News: white teak tree blossom, banana harvest ... His own top-floor party world, just like his "happy farm", he would be happy to "urban Homestead".

Say, this "cultivation of soul" has been hiding in Jiehui Xu bones, waiting for a call of blessing. He recalls: "probably was in 1992, I've been in the entertainment industry for years, looking for a leisure activity, one day on the way to see the store's discarded styrofoam boxes, I don't know why, reminds me of my grandfather, decides to pick up back to grow vegetables. ”

"Then, as long as the location to see if you have land, I went home with a plastic bag of steak. "He loves eating Chinese Chrysanthemum and joyfully to Miao Hang buy seeds, Pack into the soil. Small Chrysanthemum seedlings growing out really, "but each small, totally different with a supermarket. Again, even a yellow flower to only know to eat. "Jiehui Xu charades said, early vegetables experience errors, soil is thick enough to seed the growth of space is too crowded.

Soon after, on the balcony of a styrofoam box was the rain, Jiehui Xu began to run the Chienkuo flower, "in addition to buy pot, those who work with small shovels and hoes, I am very interested. "Spending was lifted in the city shopping, really into his life, no longer just a potted plant.

"There was a time, under my vegetable white, President, a squeeze of his hand was crushed and consulted Miao Hang know, originally had a scale insect powder. "Jiehui Xu said they started often made greed problem, planted too close together, the ventilation is not good," plants, like people, good family and friends, also want to maintain a certain distance! "With that, he blew one of my mother's gas, just because when we still lived in his house downstairs, MOM picked up he had a hard time drawing bigger 7 small tomatoes.

Later, Jiehui Xu lived away from home, locking more than the balcony space, can hold his want to plant a variety of crops. Then, the "balcony farm" and finally in 03 when he paid for a new House, transformed into "top farm".

Jiehui Xu Miao Hang boss became the friends knew that he loved early adopters, have introduced new varieties must be to him, purple cauliflower, cherry radishes, or grafted species of "sweet" passion fruit, Jiehui Xu were planted. In order to try, Xu planted farm crops drawn neatly on the top floor, in addition to the planting area and nursery areas, there is a pool of Koi, because "the water in the pool is organic living water, best to irrigate crops.

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