As the story goes, this is because a three-part tea-picking opera troupe that immigrated to Taiwan in the early days of Han Chinese settlement decided to make its home in this area, while no such troupes ever immigrated to any of the Hakka communities of southern Taiwan. They say that this explains why the Hakkas of southern Taiwan sing tea-picking songs but don't have tea-picking opera.
據說是因為早期有一批三腳戲班團員移居桃竹苗一帶，在當地組成戲班演戲，而南部的客家移民中沒有戲班中人，一直以來只有山歌傳唱，沒有採茶劇團。