After interviewing Mrs. Qiu, we learned that she had 20 evening Raoping Hakka teaching activities from July to December in her hometown Yongjing community in 2015. Recently invited by Puxin Township Office, from October 24 on, 4 Saturday mornings in a row, she had “Get to know Puxin Hakka and Learn Raoping” lectures in Renli community. Cultural specialist Mrs. Qiu wrote Hakka learning materials about local Puxin, including History of the Names of Puxin, Introduction of Hakka Residences in Puxin, Hakka Masters’ Quotes, Folk Songs, Traditional Hakka Ballads, Introduction of Dagouwei, Introduction of Renli and Dahua Communities, Puxin Welcome Song, Dagouwei Welcome Song, Story of Tianchuan Day (Hakka traditional Holiday), Royal Highness, Pretty Puxin, Junior Corps Telling History, Junior Corps Teaching Raoping Hakka, Food Vocabularies, Song for Loyal House, Let’s Talk in Raoping Hakka....

Members of junior corps, including Yuzhang Huang and his grandparents, Minyu Chen and his mother, Tingfeng Qiu and her mother, all happily came to the activity. Many grey hair folks sat down in the center one after another, and there was even a granny took a baby who kept babbling Hakka! The materials were so popular among the folks. Mrs. Qiu also brought cards with pictures, models, posters and recordings and taught the language sentence by sentence. During the lecture, the corps also went on stage and talked about some history stories in Raoping Hakka, as well as showed the folks how to speak some transportation and friuts in that language. They won a lot applause from the audience.

Mrs. Qiu is an experienced teacher, who can help beginners speak fluently very soon. She recited the seven-word poems in various tones, including Taiwanese Opera tone, Raoping tone, Jing Siou tone, and Peach Blossom tone, and led the students playing rock, paper, sissors. Everyone enjoyed the class and learned Raoping Hakka in a happy atmosphere. Mrs. Qiu's husband, Mr. Mingqin Yang, is a photographer and a videographer. He took photos of the class and videotaped the whole class, sharing them on Youtube, Facebook and Line. It was indeed a good way to promote Raoping Hakka, and the folks were more interested in learning the language. More than a few folks joined Mrs. Qiu's Changhua Raoping Hakka club on the spot.

According to Mrs. Qiu’s years of study, the name history of Puxin Township is as follows: Dapu XinàPoxin VillageàPoxin TownshipàPuxin Township (1946). (大埔心à坡心庄à坡心鄉à埔心鄉). There are 20 villages in Puxin Township, with population of 34,836 in total. The biggest village is the East Village, in which live 4,247 people. The smallest is Dahua Village; only 677 people live there. Renli Village is the 12th. About 80% of the people in Puxin Township are Hakka. Only few are from Fujian Zhaoan, whose surnames are Huang. Other than that, the rest are mainly Raoping Hakka. However, for the past 50 years, barely few people spoke Raoping Hakka, including the neighbor areas of Puxin---that is, Yuanlin, Yongjing and Tianwei. Some people even didn’t know they were Raoping Hakka until they went to Mrs. Qiu’s lectures. They all sighed that Time took the language away, which used to be their mother tongue. Now, the folks all appreciate Mrs. Qiu’s hardwork on reviving Raoping Hakka. They are thrilled to speak their ancestors’ language.