In the past, people did not well understand conditions on the other side of the Taiwan Strait, and with Chinese people's penchant for extreme views, if it was not seen as poor and backward, corrupt and decadent and with declining moral values, then it was seen as a place where everything was better, an earthly paradise where the streets are paved with gold.
過去人們對海峽兩岸的情況不甚瞭解，加之中國人又有易走極端之毛病，不是認為對方貧窮落後、腐化墮落、世風日下，就是以為對方什麼都好，是人間天堂、遍地黃金。