No one, including Chairman of the Board Chen Chin-huang and Administrator Liao Chia-chan, knew how it would turn out, The problem lay in the common custom of ancient villages that when old people passed away their families would cremate them, along with all their household goods. No one was sure how many precious photographs had already passed into ashes this way.
何況在老城鎮裡，老人故去時，家人常有將他的日常用品一併焚燒的舊俗，也不知有多少珍貴的老照片已隨之灰飛煙滅。