"Half moved to Makung, and half went to Kaohsiung," sighs Chen Jung-yi, chairman of the Erhkan Boosters Society. Chen himself moved to Kaohsiung at age seven along with his father. In the early years, many of those who had moved away would come back every lunar new year to pay their respects to their ancestors, but later "they just went away and took the ancestral tablets with them."
「一半搬去馬公，一半搬去高雄，」二崁協進會理事長、本身也在七歲隨父親移居高雄的陳榮一感嘆，剛開始許多人年節時還會回來拜公媽（祖先），到後來，「連公媽都請走了。」