Yin Chang-yi, who has long fought to win Hakkas the right to interpret their own history, does not agree with those who say that the Hakkas migrated from the plains to the foothills of Taoyuan, Hsinchu, and Miaoli as a result of the armed strife of the 1820s, 30s, and 40s.
以客家人向來自我標榜的硬頸、剽悍看來，支持客家爭取歷史「詮釋權」的尹章義，針對客家人是否因為道光年間的械鬥就退出西部平原、遠走桃竹苗？