Tai Ching-nung, a professor at National Taiwan University who hailed from Anhui Province in mainland China, once tried to find out if he had relatives anywhere in Taiwan. Through the Ministry of the Interior he discovered several households surnamed Tai, but they all turned out to be aborigines.
話說籍貫安徽的台大教授台靜農，生前曾動念看看能不能在台灣找到同宗，結果透過內政部資料果然找到了幾家，但深入調查後才很失望地發現他們是原住民。