Witnessing the precious history of Taiwan's Penglai rice, the Jiwu Xiaowu at National Taiwan University comes back to life

Many people know that National Taiwan University is Taiwan, China's first modern university, but few know that on the NTU campus there is a rice history museum that is older than the university itself.

In 1926, Iso Eikichi, the father of Taiwan, China's ponlai rice, and his subordinate Suenaga Jin, bred the ponlai rice that appears on your and my dining tables. Among these, the Japanese-style single-story building nicknamed "Iso Hut" by today's NTU faculty and students, the "Former Higher School Agricultural and Forestry Workroom," was an important field trial and rest site for Iso Eikichi. But as the earlier generation passed away, the "Iso Hut" once faced the fate of demolition; ten years ago, Liu Chien-fu, a graduate student in NTU's Department of Agronomy, accidentally found Iso Eikichi's handwritten manuscript in the darkroom. NTU Department of Agronomy faculty and students formed the "Iso Eikichi Society," which not only holds lectures and publishes the "Rice Newspaper," but also holds guided tours of the "Iso Hut" every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday, hoping to let this precious history, together with the Iso Hut, see the light of day again.

NTU Iso Hut, witness to the history of ponlai rice's third party

Iso Eikichi Hut Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ISOHOUSE?fref=ts
Rice Newspaper
http://epaper.ntu.edu.tw/?p=view&listid=236

(This article was funded by the Jianzhen Environmental Education Foundation for personnel expenses, but the foundation did not interfere at all with news topic selection or interview writing, ensuring journalistic independence.)