• 2024-09-04

On May 29^th, 2024, a cultural outing and Dragon Boat Festival celebration event was organized for recipient scholars of NCL’s “Research Grants for Foreign Scholars in Chinese Studies (Taiwan)” and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs “Taiwan Fellowship” to allow these scholars to experience Taiwan’s culture, celebrate Dragon Boat Festival, and engage in further scholarly exchange during their time in Taiwan.

This activity was co-organized by the NCL Center for Chinese Studies and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, bringing scholars and their families to Wen Sun Farm in Xindian District to experience Taiwan’s local tea culture, humanities, and ecology. The area of Xindian, Wulai, and Pinlin Districts in New Taipei City is one of Taiwan’s important tea growing regions. The area’s climate with its frequent cloudy weather and light rain as well as its hilly terrain make the region particularly suited for tea plant growth. Wen Sun Farm occupies what was once a “Tea Industry Training Institute” during the Japanese Colonial Period, which served as an important center for the cultivation of tea seedlings and exchange of tea growing techniques.