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100 selected fine goods in Yunlin, loaded with decades of heartfelt
stories for the land and the people, worth appreciating.

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cess and quality all have met the international standards.

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food materials added in. There is this handmade goose oil soap, with shea butter
and milk added in for natural moisturization. I believe that my skin can really be tak-
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to give and to receive such a gift.

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and I have known him for a long time. His name is Yen-Wen, the last name is Shih,
and he is our chivalrous scholar from Yunzhou.

Growing up in a military dependents’ community, I wouldn’t be able to learn of
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who spoke to me in Taiwanese, and he took me to know another person named
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Creator of the show, The Great Chivalrous Scholar from Yunzhou, was Chun-Hsi-
ung Huang, a glove puppetry master from Huwei Township of Yunlin. Our childhood
memories would not be completed without his puppet shows. TV was really used to
watch those puppet shows. The most troubling issue for children was that the sec-
ond half of the shows happened to overlap with the news on the other channel, and
adults usually would turn to watch the news, and the whole family would have to vote
what to watch.

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recommendation. To write it, I had to do homework, and I got to learn that Yunlin still
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heritage of glove puppetry at the national-treasure level. There is still so much to ex-
plore and discover. Traveling abroad is not easy now, but I can make Yunlin my new
destination, and I expect that it will be a pleasant trip full of warm reminiscence of my
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of glove puppetry to visit the characters of Eccentric Old Men and Buck Teeth.

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