► Preparation for Interview
In order to know more about the production of Linkou’s tea, we first searched on the internet for knowledge about tea in Linkou. Then, we made the information into powerpoints to share with classmates. During the communicating process, we listed a few questions on some information that was not clear on the internet and the history of development of Linkou’s tea.
After that, we started to prepare the content for this visit. We discovered that there are only a few actual local tea shops survived in Linkou. These survivors usually do not sell tea as the only business, most of them have transformed into tourist farms and compound restaurants. We visited one of the tea manufacturing factories called Sheng-Jin. It has been operating for more than 30 years, and lived through the high and low of the tea industry and its transformation. It is also praised as “a family of champion pedigree” from the professional production in the early years to the tourist tea manufacturing factory at present. The cultivating area of the tea factory currently is 0.7 hectares. Every holiday, there are tourists visiting the tea garden from various places. Besides learning to make tea by hand, they can also taste the fabulous taste of: Long-Shou” tea, which is welcomed and favored by many people.
To learn more about the knowledge on local tea effectively, each of us drafted interview outlines before heading out. We wrote down our questions regarding tea in Linkou, sending to the busines owner as preparation after classifying and intergrating them.
1. As an important production area of tea in Taiwan, what kind of geographical and human conditions of Linkoou make it suitable for growing tea?
2.At 1930, the Tea Research and Extension Station (TRES) of Linkou established, becoming a crucial site to cultivate experts in the tea industry. What kind of transformation has TRES brought to the development of Linkou’s tea industry? Which part of the tea industry development nowadays had been influenced by TRES?
3.What are the specialties of development possessed by tea in Linkou? For example, what is the major types of tea that is grown here? What’s special about the tea manufacturing method here.
4.Based on your observation, what are the possible directions that tea industry in Linkou is going to develop toward and why?
