Not long after the Nationalist government took over Taiwan in 1947, the Taiwanese, who had high hopes for the "motherland" at the beginning of the restoration period, discovered that traditional Chinese corruption and brutality was worse than that of the previous colonial Japanese government; business collapsed and the people were up in arms.
民國 36 年，國民政府接收台灣不久，光復之初原本對「祖國」殷殷期盼的台灣人民，發現祖國的統治較之前的日本殖民政府來得更為腐敗蠻橫，百業蕭條，民心激憤。