Fangyuan's tidal flat is the largest muddy tidal flat in Taiwan — and for generations, it has been oyster country. Long before trucks and tractors, local farmers rode ox-drawn carts out onto the flats to harvest oysters, a tradition known as "sea-ox culture." A handful of sea oxen still work the flats today, and Fangyuan Elementary keeps their story alive in the classroom.
From the tide to the classroom.
Children from Fangyuan's fishing families grow up around oysters — many can shuck a shell before they can write their name. At school, they learn to give old, discarded oyster shells a second life: some are reused to raise new oysters, and others are transformed into hanging wind-chime installations and campus art, like the shells strung through the trees along our running track.
Visitors to Fangyuan often get the same experience our students do — riding one of the township's last remaining sea oxen out onto the flats to see the oyster farms stretch to the horizon. It's an unforgettable way to understand why this small coastal school is so proud of where it stands.
芳苑潮間帶是全國最大的泥質潮間帶，也是孕育牡蠣的產地。早期居民利用牛車，到潮間帶裡收蚵，這項傳統被稱為「海牛文化」。時至今日，芳苑僅剩幾頭海牛仍在潮間帶工作，芳苑國小也把這段故事留在課堂裡。
從潮間帶到教室。
來自漁村社區的孩子，對牡蠣一點都不陌生——許多孩子在學會寫自己的名字之前，就已經會剝蚵殼了。在學校，孩子學習讓廢棄的蚵殼重新利用：有的繼續拿去養蚵，有的則變成懸掛在校園裡的蚵殼風鈴與裝置藝術，就像掛在田徑場旁樹上的那一串串蚵殼。
來訪的客人，經常也能體驗一趟和學生一樣的行程——搭乘芳苑僅剩的幾頭海牛，進入潮間帶，親眼看見一望無際的蚵田。這是認識這所濱海小校為何如此以在地為傲的難忘方式。
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Fangyuan's tidal flat grows delicious oysters.芳苑的潮間帶盛產美味的牡蠣。
We walk out onto the tidal flat at low tide.退潮時我們走進潮間帶。
A sea ox pulls the cart across the mud.海牛拖著牛車走過泥灘。
Farmers load oysters onto the cart.農夫把牡蠣裝上牛車。
We turn old shells into art.我們把舊蚵殼變成藝術品。
The oyster-shell wind chimes sing in the breeze.蚵殼風鈴隨風輕輕作響。
The wetland is home to many birds.濕地是許多鳥類的家。
Farmers harvest oysters all year round.農夫全年都在採收牡蠣。
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