We are very pleased to interview the owner of Fu Jing Restaurant in Shetou Township, Changhua County – Chen Zhao Qiang, who is also the curator of Fu Jing Railway Museum. He shared with us his bittersweet experience in collecting railway relics. The interview content is as follows:
Hello everyone, I am the owner of Fu Jing Restaurant – Chen, Zhao Qiang. It’s my honor to share the fun of collecting railway relics with you.
The most precious collections are those of my 98-year-old grandfather. His stuff is preserved in this cabinet. Let me give you a brief introduction. This shirt over here has a history of 80 years. He had been wearing this outfit since the 30th year of the Republic Era and later on he became a locomotive dispatcher in dispatching office. This is my grandfather’s signature.
In this train ticket cabinet, there are over 200 tickets from different stations. The tickets in this area set out from Keelung, passing through Pingtung, Taitung, Hualien and back to Keelung. There are also some other, including branch lines. Except for the Yongjing ticket that is arrival ticket, the others are initiating station tickets. You can find almost train tickets from all the train stations in Taiwan here.
Have you ever bought lunch boxes on train? This platform shows Taiwan Railway train service selling lunch boxes and these are all Taiwan Railway lunch boxes. I perceive these lunch boxes as cultural relics. You see, they all look different.
My collections can be categorized into sugar railway, high speed railway, forest railway and Taiwan Railway collections. I revived them, take this clock for example. It stopped ticking until I got them repaired and it moved again. These air whistles, after repair, are made adaptations to. Kids can use air pump to inflate whistles around 200 times and press the switch. Then they will make loud honking sound. There are four different air whistles which I spent a lot of money on, leaving me with no deposit. Yet, I think they make interesting interactive properties.
The uniform of Taiwan Railway is a suit and a big cap. Judging from the cap, we get to know one’s post. The one wearing red is either station master or assistant station master. This one I am wearing is Nangang Station master’s cap. The yellow ones are for conductors. The orange ones are for train drivers, so if you see a train staff wearing orange cap, he is a train driver. Those with no color is for grassroots staff such as ticket seller and gateman. And the collections in this area is elevated to railway arts. The one you see is made from old timber sleepers. There are one or two preserved in the school, as well. Then, this is a train model made from Luoxi stone which I spent almost 200,000 NT dollars on because it was attentively sculptured.
Fu Jing Restaurant is mainly for railway collections and many professional scholars come to collect information. I offer the relics that I gathered for those that have interests to study as my small contribution to passing on railway cultural relics history.
Hello everyone, I am the owner of Fu Jing Restaurant – Chen, Zhao Qiang. It’s my honor to share the fun of collecting railway relics with you.
The most precious collections are those of my 98-year-old grandfather. His stuff is preserved in this cabinet. Let me give you a brief introduction. This shirt over here has a history of 80 years. He had been wearing this outfit since the 30th year of the Republic Era and later on he became a locomotive dispatcher in dispatching office. This is my grandfather’s signature.
In this train ticket cabinet, there are over 200 tickets from different stations. The tickets in this area set out from Keelung, passing through Pingtung, Taitung, Hualien and back to Keelung. There are also some other, including branch lines. Except for the Yongjing ticket that is arrival ticket, the others are initiating station tickets. You can find almost train tickets from all the train stations in Taiwan here.
Have you ever bought lunch boxes on train? This platform shows Taiwan Railway train service selling lunch boxes and these are all Taiwan Railway lunch boxes. I perceive these lunch boxes as cultural relics. You see, they all look different.
My collections can be categorized into sugar railway, high speed railway, forest railway and Taiwan Railway collections. I revived them, take this clock for example. It stopped ticking until I got them repaired and it moved again. These air whistles, after repair, are made adaptations to. Kids can use air pump to inflate whistles around 200 times and press the switch. Then they will make loud honking sound. There are four different air whistles which I spent a lot of money on, leaving me with no deposit. Yet, I think they make interesting interactive properties.
The uniform of Taiwan Railway is a suit and a big cap. Judging from the cap, we get to know one’s post. The one wearing red is either station master or assistant station master. This one I am wearing is Nangang Station master’s cap. The yellow ones are for conductors. The orange ones are for train drivers, so if you see a train staff wearing orange cap, he is a train driver. Those with no color is for grassroots staff such as ticket seller and gateman. And the collections in this area is elevated to railway arts. The one you see is made from old timber sleepers. There are one or two preserved in the school, as well. Then, this is a train model made from Luoxi stone which I spent almost 200,000 NT dollars on because it was attentively sculptured.
Fu Jing Restaurant is mainly for railway collections and many professional scholars come to collect information. I offer the relics that I gathered for those that have interests to study as my small contribution to passing on railway cultural relics history.
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Source of Photos :Members of Expert Expedition
Source of Information:Members of Expert Expedition
