The melon master When he had just started carving, he bought his gourds from outside. Then in 1986 he was invited to run a workshop at the Institute for Secondary School Teachers in Taiwan, which sent him running all over the place to find enough gourds. It was then he realized that without a steady supply of materials problems like that were bound to arise.
種瓜專家早期龔一舫從事瓠雕，都是向人採購瓠瓜，一九八六年，他應邀為台灣省教師研習會做示範教學，為了教學開始到處請託購買瓠瓜，這時他發覺，如果素材供應不穩定，勢必會影響到日後的推廣，於是萌生自己種瓠瓜的念頭。