"Many educated Taiwanese back then grieved over the island being severed from China," Liao Yi-chin says. "With the civil service examination system discarded, the literati realized that what they had studied would no longer be of any practical use, and so they consigned their literary talents to verse."
「當時許多讀書人都很悲憤台灣被割讓，而且因為科舉廢除，讀書人知道以前所讀的書都已經沒有用，只好從詩文中尋求寄託」，廖一瑾說。