Dasi has a diversified business culture, with major products such as woodcrafts, bean processed food, and farm produce.
As for Dasi's dried bean curd, it has been enjoying its fame for a long time. Owing to the clean and pure water, it adds much flavor and chewy feel to the dried bean curd. With the fall of Dasi's river transportation, dried bean curd also became the snack of Dasi's homesick travelers in foreign lands. With its high quality and homesickness, it multiplied the fame of Dasi's bean curd. In recent years, with the flocking tourists, Dasi's dried bean curd has become one
of the best selling snacks in Taiwan. Black dried bean curd is Dasi's unique product that brings its fame. Coping with the increase in tourism, traditional dried bean curd transformed into a modern snack sold at chain stores under contemporary management. Therefore, mass production and corporate management is the similar operation pattern for dried bean curd
manufacturers. As to the types of bean processed food, it increased from the single product of dried bean curd to bean skin, vegetarian chicken, vegetarian cow elbows, fermented bean curd, bean curd pudding, stinky tofu, soy sauce, etc. You can taste the authentic Dasi taste from any of the abovementioned products.
Dasi's woodcraft is famous throughout the island. About 200 years ago, when the ancestors explored Taiwan, being close to Fuxing Village, with easy access to the wood, Dasi laid its foundation in making agricultural tools, home appliances, and furniture. With the rise of river transportation, Dasi leaped into an important river port, making many rich families and prosperous merchants, glamorous mansions and the demand for good furniture. Many artisans that migrated from the Mainland China settled down at Dasi; they also took many apprentices, cultivating many artisans. With the carving of the artisans; the top grade wood, such as Chinese cypress, ash tree, camphor, fine
hardwood, etc; and the lacquer from Dasi, it helped the place to establish its place in furniture. As Dasi people were religious, there were many temples, with many religious performance groups. Immersed in such a religious atmosphere, the woodcrafts at Dasi tended to employ religious materials, such as wooden engravings of the Buddhist statue, worshipping tables, god's carriers, and all costumes for the religious performers. With its diversified styles and prolific appearance, it became the emblem for Dasi's prosperous woodcrafts. Especially those worshipping tables and red cypress woodcrafts, it brought them high renown. Nowadays, as time changes, there are certain limits to the demand and supply of worshipping tables; Dasi's woodcrafts are seeking a transformation. In addition to Chinese style furniture, artisans also extend their works to traditional domestic appliances, such as water basins, rice buckets, bathtubs, wooden slippers, etc. Further, they also



make wooden and bamboo toys, such as tops, wheelbarrows, bucket rings, 3 D engravings, and many diversified crafts, giving the traditional art a creative scope and future.
Owing to the natural river tableland and fertile soil, Dasi farm produce is prolific. On the slope, there are plenty of green bamboo shoots, tangerines, pears, wax apples, etc. On the sediment plain, there are handfuls of paddy rice, flowers, Chinese chives, dragon fruit, herbs, etc; all of these produce are consumers' favorite. In recent years, it also has integrated with in-depth tourism and theme entertainment; many of the farms have transformed into refined agriculture as orchard gardens, flower gardens, dragon fruit gardens, herb gardens, etc. The leisure gardens enriched Dasi's landscape and augmented
the pastoral pleasure in visiting the place. Among Dasi farm produce, green bamboo shoots and Chinese chives, are the most famous. Owing to the sandstone and volcanic rock, uncontaminated stream water, abundant rainfall, and mild climate, the green bamboo shoots at Dasi are juicy and tasty, with delicate fibers, but without any bitterness. In the Chinese chives zone at Zhongxinli, there is 70 hectares of land covered with chives. In October every year, when the Chinese chives bloom, at the tip of each plant, white flowers burst forth, making the area a white flower sea. What a terrific scene! As for the orchard and other flowers, there are some 40 hectares of land dedicated for their cultivation. The major orchard types are butterfly, heart, tiger head, and nation orchard. Others are herb based flowers, green plants, gold line lotuses, etc. The Greater Taipei Area is the major market for these flowers.