She explains that one dou (10 liters) of rice back in the 1940s was worth five or six yuan, or about four days 'pay for a manual laborer, but the tax on one jia of land (0.97 hectares) was 150 yuan. A lot of people had to borrow money just to pay their taxes.
她回憶，那時一斗米值五、六元新台幣，合算去做工，等於做四天工才賺得一斗米，可是一甲地的稅租高達一百五十元，逼得許多鄉人得借錢繳稅。