"Vibrant with optimism and stylishly elegant" is how Taichung was described in Sinorama's 1984 series My Land, My People, which noted the city center's Kyoto-like checkerboard pattern of streets "lined with bustling shops and department stores on one side, with old trees shading quiet single-story houses on the other" in a city where old and new mingled together.
「朝氣煥發、格調幽雅」，民國七十三年本刊編輯因「吾土吾民」系列走訪台中市，為當時仿日本京都棋盤格子規劃的市中心，以及路上「一邊萬丈紅塵，百貨大樓聳立；另一邊則老樹成蔭，遮掩著幽靜平房」的新舊交替景象，留下註腳。