[Reporter Li Shaoling/Taipei Report] "Going home" means returning to your hometown, or finding a life you want? Aboriginal TV’s humanistic documentary program “Uwah! "Go Home and Live" takes "entrepreneurship" as the starting point and goes deep into the lives of people from different tribes, witnessing how they find answers to their physical and mental needs at the intersection of land, culture, family and reality.
Lin Ming (left) and Cheng Ting (right) hosted "Uwah! Go home and live", taking the audience to experience the life choices of the tribesmen. (Original text will be provided)
"Uwah! "Uwah" in "Let's Go Home and Live" means "come" in the Atayal language, which is like a cordial and warm invitation: "Come and join in the lives of people from different tribes and experience how they find their own way back home." The program breaks away from the framework of traditional success studies and does not focus on teaching entrepreneurship. Instead, it uses the camera to truly record the trajectory of contemporary aborigines in modern society. From local creation, cultural roots, young people returning home, to the integration of family expectations and generational concepts, the most profound life choices behind the halo of entrepreneurship are revealed layer by layer.
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The program is co-hosted by Lin Ming from the Atayal ethnic group and Cheng Ting from the Taroko ethnic group. Lin Ming is from the Xikou tribe in Taoyuan Fuxing District. He has been deeply engaged in the issues of local creation of tribes and the return of original youth for many years, and he can always turn his rich field experience into warm and close dialogues. Cheng Ting is from the Wanrong Zhiyagan tribe in Hualien. After returning home, he devoted himself to cultural writing, tribal experience and creation practice, and visited various tribes with personal experience. The two brought different cultural backgrounds and perspectives, accompanying the interviewees to explore the context of returning home, witnessing how traditional culture bloomed into a new look, and conveyed a core idea to the audience: entrepreneurship may be just a medium, and what they are truly pursuing is actually a spiritual residence where they can settle down and live.
Lin Ming (right) and Cheng Ting (left) through "Uwah! Go home and live", enter the tribe from different life perspectives, and see the life choices after returning home from entrepreneurship and cultural practice. (Original text will be provided)
The first episode focuses on the Paiwan tribe in Ma's hometown in Pingtung. Host Lin Ming personally visits craftsman Pan Yali to record how she has spent more than ten years transforming the ubiquitous moon peach leaves into handicrafts that combine cultural roots and contemporary beauty. From traveling through the peach fields to collect raw materials, exposure and finishing, to fine weaving in the studio, the program not only presents the birth of the peach craft in detail, but also directly explores the practical dilemma of returning home to start a business. At a stage when pure creation was not enough to make a living and she had to rely on teaching to supplement her income, she went through the difficulties of being questioned by her family and not understanding how to integrate with the market. Fortunately, after her family became understanding and supportive, she still firmly guarded this land and walked step by step at her own pace.
In order to bring the core concept to more young people, the program specially invited KOL Zhou Xinzuo to shoot a short promotional video. Combining his own experience in entrepreneurship and life, he frankly admitted that life on the land is by no means a filter-like romantic imagination, but that he must repeatedly find a balance between cultural inheritance and real benefits. At the same time, he also pointed out that "home" should not be limited by the place of birth, but also a place where he is willing to rest his body and mind and live a serious life.
"Uwah! "Go Home and Live" is not in a hurry to give a standard answer to "go home", but through vivid and three-dimensional life narratives, it invites the audience to think together: What exactly is home? What is worth waiting for? How to live out your true self? The program will be officially broadcast on Channel 16 every Thursday at 9 pm starting from September 24, leading the audience into the real daily life of the tribe and finding the exclusive "life back home" in their hearts.
