Back then the inhabitants of military dependents 'villages did not understand Taiwanese dialect and had their own distinct lifestyles, so they rarely went out to shop at local traditional markets. Instead, traders mostly went into the villages and set up markets on squares or empty plots of land, and as a result vegetable markets became an obligatory part of the dependents' village scene.
早期眷村人語言不通，生活習慣也自成一格，很少到村子外的本省傳統市場採買，往往是外面的生意人進來，就村子裡的空地、廣場上擺起市集，於是菜市場也成為眷村不可或缺的特色風光。