The younger of the Messrs. Huang serves us tea in his father's home in rural Anxi County (安溪县) in Fujian province. We spent most of our time in the family's home with the younger Huang, a soft-spoken man who came off as embarrassed by the family's financial condition. Mr. Huang is using some of the family's roughly 100,000 yuan/year ($14,638) income from the tea farming and production business to build a boxy, cement, steel and brick home next to his father's traditional courtyard home. "The style is popular these days," he told us. Despite the new home's bland outward appearance, the younger Mr. Huang hopes its location directly on the provincial highway will bring in more business, allowing him to provide for a better retirement for his father and mother.
