This simple, quiet scene betrays nothing of the place's former prosperity as the "home of mats and hats," but today's Yuanli still counts as one of the "livelier" townships in southern Miaoli County. Mat Company, "has half-finished hats drying outside its doorway, through which a faint aroma of straw wafts out from inside the shop.
簡單、恬靜的市況，怎麼也看不出往昔「帽蓆原鄉」的盛景，但屈指數來，今日的苑裡仍算得上苗栗縣南部的「鬧熱鎮」。