During the seventeenth century the aborigines still lived by hunting and fishing, and the Han Chinese immigrants were mostly poor farmers and fishermen who left no written records behind, while the historical documents of the Cheng clan (descendants of the Ming loyalist Koxinga) were destroyed during the Ching dynasty.
十七世紀島上原住民猶以漁獵為生；而少數漢人移民，多為貧窮的漁民或農民，自然沒有所謂文獻記載。