Meinung, a town in the Kaohsiung country of southern Taiwan with plantations of bananas and coconut palms spreading in every direction, is a mixture of things old. It remains little changed in the course of industrialization and modernization of the Republic of China.
在南台灣的蕉風椰雨之中，在全國工業化、現代化的努力之下，台灣南端的高雄縣，有一個寧靜、幽雅的古老小鎮﹘﹘美濃，始終曳著馳緩、悠揚的拍子，輕輕吟唱著屬於她自己的古調，二、三百年來不改她自然純樸的本色，靜靜地成長，卻始終保有她獨特的風貌。