A retired female worker who was originally unknown went to Taiwan to start a business, used a small mung bean ball to conquer the taste buds of Taiwan compatriots, and was received by Ma Ying-jeou for a group photo. The person who created this miracle was Ms. Feng Yongzhen, who came out of Yuanyang County on the bank of the Yellow River.
In 1951, Feng Yongzhen was born in Balizhuang, Chengguan Town, Yuanyang County. After joining the work in 1966 and retiring from Xinxiang Food Company in 1992, she did not want to spend her days in idleness, contracted the anti-corrosion project of Jiaozuo Thermal Power Plant, operated an aviation brewery, and served as the director of the Jiangzhuang Street community in Weibin District. She was busy all day for her family and society, but this busy and normal life was changed by what happened to her daughter.
In 1999, Feng Yongzhen's eldest daughter was introduced to marry a young man in Taoyuan County, Taiwan Province, but unexpectedly, after marriage, she has been discriminated against and abused by her mother-in-law. One night in September 2002, Feng Yongzhen received a call from her eldest daughter, and after learning of her daughter's experience, she decided to visit her daughter in Taiwan. After arriving in Taiwan, Feng Yongzhen took care of her daughter's life while finding a job to support herself. With the help of her fellow villagers, she found a job in Taipei City to care for the elderly, with a monthly salary of NT$6,000 (equivalent to 1,500 yuan). One day, she invited the neighbors to taste the fried mung bean balls that were often made in the mainland, and everyone picked a thumbs up and applauded. Ten to ten, ten to a hundred, many people came to her to buy.
Zhao Tongxin, a 93-year-old native of Lankao, Henan Province, specially invited Feng Yongzhen to cook at home, agreeing to go twice a week and give NT$2,000 each time. She rented a 20-square-meter house in Taipei City, took her daughter and grandson to live with her, and after the living arrangements were in place, she began to start a business. Although he was tired, Feng Yongzhen kept up.
In January 2003, the Yongle Women's Center under the Taipei Catholic Charity Foundation held a special snack exhibition in his hometown, and Feng Yongzhen signed up to participate. Her elaborate fried mung bean noodles and red bean noodle balls, with crispy skin and delicious taste, won the favor of the participants, and everyone rushed to buy. A pill is NT$5, a leather paper bag containing 6 is 30 yuan, and the caring Feng Yongzhen donated all the money sold to the vulnerable groups. Since then, the Chinese Rescue Association in Taipei City has held a weekly local snack and always invited Feng Yongzhen to be an instructor.
Feng Yongzhen's fried mung bean noodle balls are popular in Taiwan, and her income is increasing, and her status is also improving. On January 27, 2004, she was recommended to participate in the presidential election campaign organized by the Taiwan BusinessMen's Association. At the banquet, when Lien Chan, then chairman of the Kuomintang, toasted everyone, Feng Yongzhen spoke on behalf of the immigration team and cheered for him.
On October 1, 2006, Taipei City held a large-scale new immigrant food and culture festival, and Feng Yongzhen was honored to receive the permit for the 18th booth of Henan representatives. When Ma Ying-jeou, then mayor of Taipei, visited the meeting, Feng Yongzhen was the only small stall operator he received.
Feng Yongzhen is bent on making Henan's flavor snacks bigger, and she has set up two Henan local flavor snack stalls in Taipei City's Chenggong Guozhai Vegetable Market and Linjiang Street Market. With the increase in the variety of business, her business is booming.
In order to expand her popularity, she published an advertisement in the periodical "Yusheng Magazine" sponsored by the Henan Hometown Association, and many calls from her compatriots, some asked about the situation in Her hometown in Henan, and some called to order, and a fellow villager from the northeast also took her corn nest as a gift to give to people.
As a friendly envoy of the China Cross-Strait Exchange Association, Feng Yongzhen enthusiastically participated in the tourism of Taiwan compatriots to the mainland, became the Henan business representative of a travel agency, and organized Taiwan compatriots to visit Xinxiang City and other prefectures and cities in Henan Province on many occasions, making contributions to the exchanges between compatriots on both sides of the Strait. On August 18, 2010, she organized the first Taiwan tourism tour to The Bigan Temple, Lu Wang Tomb, Baiquan and other scenic spots.
Feng Yongzhen actively participated in social welfare activities, in December 2012, when she returned to her hometown to investigate the investment project, she learned that the children in Dachishan Primary School in Weihui Shibaotou Township had very difficult learning and living conditions, so she took out more than 10,000 yuan to buy 56 sets of cotton clothes for the children.
She has never forgotten that she has roots in the Central Plains and xinxiang, and actively matches exchanges and cooperation in various fields between Xinxiang and Taiwan.