"Everyone goes away to find work these days," an old man named Wu says. "If they want to come back, they have to ask for leave and maybe give up three or four days of pay." The festival used to go on for a week, he says, but now it's shrunk to four days.
「大家都到外地去工作了，要回來一定要請假，可能還要扣上三天工錢」，身旁的老吳說，以前豐年祭好熱鬧，跳舞都跳一個禮拜；現在呢，祭典已經濃縮成四天了。