Li Feng-mao, a Kouhu Rural Township native and researcher at Academia Sinica's Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, explains that according to Chinese folk beliefs, an unnatural death is a breach of taboo, and when a large number of people are killed en masse it is a form of punishment from heaven.
本身就是口湖鄉人的中研院文哲所研究員李豐楙指出，在中國民間的死亡觀裡，非自然死亡是一種禁忌，集體的歹死更被視為一種天譴，是老天爺的一種懲罰。