A vine for a belt The Tachin of his youth, a remote hamlet in the mountains of Ilan, had no fertile land to speak of. The land there was dry and stony, and about the only things that could be grown were low-value crops such as sweet potatoes and peanuts.
樹藤當腰帶在張清來童年時，大進村是後山宜蘭的一個偏僻小山村，沒有良田，有的是滿佈石頭的旱地，只能種經濟價值不高的地瓜、花生。