Hearing that most of its patients are now mentally ill can't help but bring to mind a melancholy line of poetry: "That beauty I knew is nowhere to be found, but the peach blossoms still smile in the spring wind." Peitou's rise and fall just goes to prove that everything in this world, save the blue sky, changes. (Jane Wang / photos by Hsueh Chi-kuang / tr.
聽到這裡現在收容的病人都是一些精神病患時，一股「人面不知何處去，桃花依舊笑春風」的傷感不禁由然而生，北投的興衰，正應驗了「世事無常」的道理，不變的，或許只剩下無語的蒼天吧？