Looking out at the high-speed rail tracks that run along the rice fields, Wu says that most every farming community in Taiwan has gone through the same process: the population drifts away, property titles get tangled and land gets subdivided, and then new Western-style homes pop up amid courtyard homes falling into disrepair.
望向高鐵高架軌道橫過的沃野稻浪，吳晟說，全台灣的農村發展過程幾乎有一定的模式：人口外移、房舍產權不清且分割複雜，於是農村到處林立緊貼著破落三合院築起的洋房，更讓人驚嘆一座完整院落的保存絕非易事，就像他所經營的「文學農園」一樣。