"Purchased marriages" often occurred among the first generation of mainlander soldiers. Because their economic situations were poor, many of the local women that they married were marginal in Taiwanese society, such as widows, the handicapped, or aborigines.
「買賣婚姻」在第一代的外省士官兵中經常出現，由於經濟條件差，他們所娶的本省女性許多是本省族群中社會邊緣的女子，例如寡婦、有殘疾者、山胞等。