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Since 2018, they have been working with the Le-But Culture Co., Ltd. to promote the Big Rice Urn Project, which not only recruits individuals and enterprises to support organic rice farmers who are willing to treat their rice well, but also, and more importantly, they With the Manna brand, Chung Yu-En continues to promote and advocate with the Hualien County Government, Agricultural Research and Extension Stations, the Forestry Bureau, and the Agriculture and Food Agency. His peers, his elders, the private sector, and the public sector are all continuing to exert their influence, such as designing the“Organic Rice Nutritional Lunch Program”for students in eastern Taiwan. The students are guided to learn about the ingredients in their school lunches. They also visit farming villages to learn about the cultivation and harvesting of crops in order to truly appreciate the hard work and origins behind each grain of rice. “wanted to make sure that everyone can eat properly,”so that disadvantaged groups do not need to worry about“where is the next meal coming from.” Chung Yu-En’s intention is to“make the countryside a better place for all.”To this end, Chung Yu-En and a group of young people who have returned to their hometowns have established the“Fuli Maker Village Experimental Base”to provide local youths with venture capital and entrepreneurial counseling. They hope that this endeavor will provide more young people who have stayed in or returned to their hometowns, or relocated here from other regions, with diversified career paths to choose from in the farming villages. Furthermore, they aim to produce records such as writing, video, and art creation under a systematic framework. When like-minded people get together, unexpected results can often be created. The“Fuli Harvest Music Festival”is a gathering of all the people in the area, including young farmers, teachers, community partners, and B&B owners.“We do all of our work together without prompting, because we want more people to get to know Fuli. We’ve been working on this for eight years, and we have gone from free entry to selling tickets in the last few years. In other words, we have started to implement‘paid cultural consumption’to provide a higher quality experience for the senses. This has really been a fantastic journey for everyone.” 63