A traditional exhortation within Hakka families states that selling the family's ancestral lands is preferable to giving up the language of the family's ancestors. The 27-year-old Huang Kuo-cheng grew up on Tunghua Street and speaks Hakka fluently.
客家傳統庭訓有言：「寧賣祖宗田，不忘祖宗言；寧賣祖宗坑，不忘祖宗聲。」二十七歲的黃國政從小在通化街長大，能說一口流利的客家話。