"It was because most of the Japanese officials posted in Taiwan also wrote classical Chinese poetry, and so they cut poetry societies some slack," explains the old poet Chuan Yu-yueh. "In those days the elders in Taiwan would use writing poetry as a way to study Chinese."
「因為日本來台的官員多半也能做漢詩，所以對詩社比較鬆」，八十多歲的「瀛社」老詩人莊幼岳解釋說，「當時的台灣前輩也利用作詩來讀中國文學。」