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Yellow Thinking Hats: Yellow is the color of sunshine and optimism, which represents active, positive, optimistic and constructive thinking in the process of thinking, researching where the interests lie and what is desirable.
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The shopkeepers in Lukang insist on making Turtle-Shaped Rice Cakes by hand and freshly every day. They all say that as long as the locals find it delicious, they don't feel tired. |
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Making tasty Turtle-Shaped Rice Cakes takes time and effort. The traditional, purely manual process is quite time-consuming and laborious. Although part of the work can now be replaced by machinery, saving a fair amount of time, the basic steps cannot be skipped. |
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The process of making traditional Turtle-Shaped Rice Cakes by hand, which includes grinding rice, dehydrating, kneading, wrapping, pressing, and steaming, takes at least two to three hours. If you also include the preparation of soaking the glutinous rice, the whole process takes up half a day, which is very time-consuming and labor-intensive. |
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During the visit, they feel this work is quite sacred, because in some of our Taiwanese folk skills, like during Chinese New Year and other festivals, traditional worship, essential offerings would include these, so it would be a pity if this traditional skill disappeared.
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