It had been a tradition in the Wu family that when a daughter was married she would receive two hectares of land as a dowry, but because Wu Tsai-chu had insisted on marrying a "mainlander" who was far below her in social and economic status, her father was so furious that he sold the land to someone else.
本來吳家五個姊妹出嫁時都有二甲土地做嫁妝，因為吳彩珠執意要嫁外省人，門不當戶不對，父親一氣之下，就把土地半賣半送給別人。