The STUST USR project team of "Local Creation and Dissemination of Cultural Heritage—Fucheng v.s. Yuejin," granted by the Ministry of Education, has assumed its important responsibility of social education since the July of 2018, when it was established on the second floor of Wutiaogang Cultural Hall at Shennong Street. In response to the preservation and development of the business culture of Wutiaogang and Shennong Street, the project team held Wujogang Craftsmen Storytelling, Shennong Street Residents’ Storytelling, and Shennong Street Cooking and Tea-Drinking Courses on a monthly basis, in order to practice the university’s social responsibility.

[Taiwanese House, Persistence of Ancient Taiwanese Taste: Mr. Rong-Tang Zhou was introducing local food ingredients in the live broadcasting show.]

As the outbreak of COVID-19 in May this year was rapidly spread, community college classes were forced to suspend. All the courses at the "Wutiaogang Cultural Center" stopped for two months. The USR project team at Shennong Street started to plan on how to suspend the classes without stopping school at the beginning of the pandemic in early July. It changed the original model of requiring students to come to the hall for class; instead, students were asked to learn at home through live online lectures. For the lectures and hand-making activities, the presenters and lecturers, fully prepared with materials, should have come to the hall to share their ideas with the audience. They could meet the students online and interact with the people at close range, the speakers could communicate with the listener through their presentation. Therefore, the Shennong Street team did not invite lecturers to speak in the hall, but to the workplace of Wujogang craftsmen and residents of Shennong Street. Online lectures were used for sharing, and three series of live courses had been developed: "Zero Distance Talk about Fucheng," "Zero Distance Talk about Shennong," and "Zero Distance with Art in Fucheng."

[The STUST Project team at Shennong Street was making preparations before their live broadcast in Zhuxin House.]

The "2021 Wutiaogang Craftsman Storytelling Series Lecture—Zero Distance City Talk," first released on July 27, was held in the old Zhuxin House, built in 1876 at Xinyi Street, which specializes in with no menu. The owner Rong-Tang Zhou (Uncle Rong) gave lectures on "Taiwanese House, the Persistence of Ancient Taiwanese Taste." Yong Bo introduced how he went everywhere to find good local food ingredients in Taiwan, just to make the most original and authentic delicacies. These delicious dishes must be fresh and fresh. They are also adjusted to the needs of different seasons, so that every time the diners come here, they can have a taste of different seasonal practices. In addition to insisting on making delicious dishes, Bo Yong also likes to collect old artifacts in Taiwan, such as bicycles used to sell all kinds of beverages and food, signs of shops selling soda in the 50s and 60s, old wine bottles and glasses, dolls, etc.—all these are collected on the second floor of its North Building, where visitors can freely go upstairs to watch.

[A scene of the project team at Shennong Street and Mr. He-ting Wu making preparations before the live broadcast]

On the 28th day of the "2021 Wutiaogang Craftsman Storytelling Series Lecture—Zero Distance City Talk," the lecture was given by He-Ting Wu, the owner of "Jiuchuan Restoration Tea Shop" at No. 101, Shennong Street, sharing with everyone on the tatami on the second floor of the shop. He left home for ten years, traveled all over the world, and finally chose the most familiar place in his childhood—Shennong Street—as his first store in Tainan.

[A poster of Live broadcast on "60-Year-Old Shop—Narcissus Palace Duma Green Herbal Tea"]

As President Deng-Maw Lu of STUST said, the project team at Shennong Street made timely rolling adjustments in the face of the pandemic, creating a new type of community live broadcast courses. The "Zero Distance Live Broadcast Series" were launched on August 7 to teach the residents and visitors how to make a unique Father’s Day present—"Fucheng Wooden Coaster." They visited the Narcissus Palace Vegetable Market on August 14 and 15, allowing everyone to know the traditional detox drink of "Duma Green Herbal Tea Shop" and the traditional Chinese offering—three-color cake, launched in Guiyue with "Baolaixiang Old Cake Shop." People are welcome to visit the fackbook of Wutiaogang Cultural Center and watch the wonderful introduction to the old industry of "IN Narcissus Palace Market Storytelling."

[A poster for "Renew the city impression—wooden coaster printing" live hand-making online course]

[A poster for the Live broadcast in "Baolaixiang Old Cake Shop—One Hundred Years of Great Taste"]

[A scene before the live broadcast of “Zero Distance Storytelling about Shennong Street]