October 12th, Taitung Mending shoes Master Zhan Zhengxiong has served in the streets of Taitung for more than half a century. In the rain or shine, at least 300 thousand more than two pairs of shoes have been made up. new shoes Just because "good shoes are hard to find".

Zhan Zhengxiong, 68 years old, was a native of Changhua. But when he was little, he moved to Taitung with his family. He said that when he was 15 years old, he began to learn how to make up shoes. Once he studied it for 3 years and 6 months, he said, "master doesn't care whether you will have a teacher or not. When the time comes, you will come home and how many of you will understand yourself."

Zhan Zhengxiong said that although shoes were not a rich and expensive industry in the early years, they were also very popular, especially in the past. leather shoes When the price of a pair of good leather shoes is sometimes equal to the income of poor families for months or even the whole year, with the rise of mechanized footwear, the price and quality of some shoes are getting lower and lower.

"There are only 1 days off a week," he said. The price of the shoes is very cheap. The average price is only tens of dollars, and the price is not more than 500 yuan or 600 yuan. Once a customer forgot to take the shoes, only 2 years later he could find a friend.

Xue Huiqi, a resident of Taitung, is one of his frequent guests. She said, although many choices of shoes, but not necessarily good wear, good shoes are always those few pairs, if the bad does not make up, sometimes buy the same shoes, wearing the feeling is very uncomfortable, so she would rather spend a little time to repair, do not buy new replacement.