Oil-Coated Umbrella : Meinung

Oil-Coated Umbrella : Meinung

余秉中Ping-Chung YU
1980
  • Taiwan
30min
Colour
  • 16mm

Oil-Coated Umbrella : Meinung

Synopsis

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.