Tamsui River – Lunchtime Nap （outside the second water gate）

Taken outside of Taipei No. 2 floodgate on the Tamsui River, the 1956 photo is part of Huang Tse-hsiu's? "Ripples on the Tamsui River"? series. The photographer quietly snapped a young farmer taking a noontime nap: The man is lying on his side, on the ground, his head propped on a straw-stuffed pillow, with a water buffalo resting beside him. In the background are an oxcart, two mounds of sand, and the banks of the Tamsui River. Farther in the distance, Guanyin Mountain is on the left and the Datun mountain chain is on the right. The picture is a vivid record of life in Taiwan's preindustrial era.