Sweet potatoes, also known as sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes, etc., are foods that Taiwanese people are most familiar with. From roasted sweet potatoes and sweet potatoes on the street corners to the sweet potatoes on the table and sweet sweet potatoes that are sweet and sweet potatoes that are sweet and sweet potatoes that are sweet and sweet, they are all deeply imprinted in the depths of our taste buds. The islands in Taiwan are often compared to a sweet potato reflected in the sea. "Thousands of years of roots, thousands of years of vines, and sweet potatoes are astonished as earth, and only seek to be planted from generation to generation." This is a photo of Taiwanese people's sex and heritage.

The English name of sweet potato is somewhat casual. It is the "Sweet Potato" made of macadamia. Its original land is in Central and South America. After Columbu discovered the new mainland, this sweet and resistant plant took on the sails of the Great Navigation era and became a food for foreign ships, taking root in all parts of the world with human steps.

The word "光" of sweet potato shows its external identity. As for how it flies across the sea to Taiwan, there are different opinions. The mainstream theory believes that it was the 16th century when Spanish sailors were transferred to the Philippines and then introduced to Fujian and Taiwan. Some people also believe that earlier, the South Islanders who were good at sailing had brought sweet potatoes back from America and sent them to this beautiful island by the dark tide in the Pacific.

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, countless ancestors crossed the black water and went to Taiwan to build a new life. They wanted to maintain such a large population, but fortunately there were sweet potatoes. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Fujian maritime merchant Yan Siqi led his men to Taiwan and stationed troops in Shuilin Township, Yunlin County. The water forest was close to the sea and the soil was relatively barren. They planted a large number of drought-resistant and vital sweet potatoes, which also made the water forest develop into Taiwan's "sweet potato village". Now, for every 5 sweet potatoes we eat, one comes from Shuilin, mainly "shui forest species" No. 57, Taiwan Agricultural No. 57. During the 2nd period, the agricultural trial site of the Taiwan Governor's Office introduced various types of mixed improvements, named after the "Taiwan Agricultural" series. Like a global village of sweet potatoes, Taiwan's sweet potato production surged from 200,000 tons in 1900 to 1.7 million tons in 1937. In addition to feeding people and animals, it also used it to produce organic solvents such as ethanol, methanol, and acetone to serve as a war for the military's industrial raw materials support.

In the early days of the Second World War, Taiwanese people were buying food and merchants hoarded and smuggled, resulting in high prices of rice. In addition, the "cultural farming" policy, rice must be exported and replaced with fertilizers, industrial equipment, etc. In that era when it was not green, fortunately, there was sweet potato so that Taiwanese people would not be able to grow old. As the saying goes, "When the time comes, there is no rice and then cook sweet potato soup." Sweet potatoes set up a safe network for the people.

As agriculture gradually recovers, farmers generally regard pig farming as their subordinate business. The government also advocates the circulating growth model of "sperm, pig, and rice", that is, pig farming pigs such as sweet potatoes. The pig's excrement is used to compose, improve the soil, and thus increase the rice production. Therefore, many elders still share the memory of boiling sweet potatoes, selling pigs, and household consumption in childhood. However, after 1973, pig farming was in business, and pig feed was replaced by imported corn, and sweet potato planting was reduced.

Taiwan is like a sweet potato. Therefore, during the Japanese treatment period, some Taiwanese people who went to mainland China called themselves "sweet potato boys" to recognize the old country. However, the general term called Taiwanese sweet potatoes. The language and habits of Taiwanese soldiers from other provinces were different from those of the officers and soldiers of other provinces after the National Government joined Taiwan in 1949. The officers and soldiers of other provinces thought that the Taiwanese soldiers were in the land and called them "sweet potatoes". The latter called them "taro". Originally, it was just a rumor that was circulated in the army, but later it turned into a political connotation of ethnic conflict. In fact, taro was the staple food of the indigenous people in their early years, and sweet potatoes were a large number of "immigrant plants" that Han people had planted in Taiwan.

He Joshua, a literati of the Ming Dynasty, once sang 12 virtues of sweet potatoes in "Ji Shu", such as "No need for heaven, no desire for labor, and those who can keep trapped; those who do not fight for fertile soil, and those who can keep trapped are also ……" Many sweet potatoes have the ability to keep trapped (tolerate barren), guarded (not to fight with the main food to obtain fertile soil), equality (everyone can eat), transitive (to nourish all kinds of things, even poultry and livestock can eat), etc. "It is now considered a healthy food by modern people.

On Taiwan's historical stage, sweet potato has been through different roles such as pioneering, survival and disaster relief, military industry, pig breeding to healthy and healthy nourishment for hundreds of years. With its humble attitude, it carries the life stories and battle marks of countless people. Poet Wu Sheng described in "Animal Map": "Bad comes from Grandpa's rough hands / just like Grandpa silently takes on a hard beef from Azu / Steel! Thousands of beef / Steel / Steel / Steel / Steel / Steel" in "Animal Map" in "Animal Map" "This sweet potato map carries the sadness and honor of the people on this land, and symbolizes the volition and indomitableness that have been passed down from generation to generation. We need to continue irrigation and transmission.