Since the Qing Dynasty, every time the river has burst its banks and cut a new channel, farm fields have been obliterated, homes swept away, and lives cut short. Newspapers from the 1960s and 70s, for example, vividly depict the love-hate relationship between the people of Yi-lan and its rivers. We are especially receptive to the message today, just after Typhoon Megi brought record rainfall to Yilan.
清代至今，每當「反溪水」──溪水氾濫改道──時，田地流失，屋宇沖毀，人命淹沒，民國五、六十年的舊報紙，紀錄著宜蘭人與溪河之間的愛憎磨合，在宜蘭甫遭受颱風「梅姬」摧殘的此刻看來，分外貼切。