Oil-Coated Umbrella : Meinung

Mei-nung in the 80s was still very much an agricultural town. The pace of life was slow and simple, and the people there were hard-working and frugal. The main industries were tobacco, rice, and oil-coated umbrellas. With all of Taiwan racing towards industrialization, mass-produced umbrellas began to squeeze out traditional oil-coated umbrellas are now just a quaint memento of the past.