In 1951, the year I turned nine, at the time of the autumn rice harvest in central Taiwan, I went with my father and uncles on a duck drive through the fields.
民國四十年間，我八、九歲，逢到秋天南部稻子收成時，我就跟著父親、叔叔、伯伯等長輩，到田裡趕鴨子。