In the complex and dangerous world of Taiwan during the early years of Han Chinese settlement, when rebellions such as those led by Chu Yi-kui and Lin Shuang-wen broke out, Hakka communities often came under attack. The rebels in these cases were fighting against corrupt officialdom, to be sure, but from the Hakka perspective, these disturbances simply provided other ethnic groups with an excuse to loot and pillage Hakka enclaves.
而類似朱一貴、林爽文事件的發生，雖是官逼民反，但在複雜不安的先期移民環境中，對客家人而言，往往成為其他族群作亂、掠奪的藉口。