"Taiwanese don't pick tea anymore," says Lin Yen-hsin, another Taiwanese dealer in Fangcun. Lin adds that her husband's family long ago stopped cultivating their two hectares of fields in Taipei County's Sanhsia Township. Unable to make a living growing tea in Taiwan, they began selling tea in China.
「台灣人不採茶了，」另一位在芳村堪稱大姊頭的台灣茶商林姲妡說，夫家在北縣三峽的 2 甲茶園早已荒廢，因為無法謀生，被迫只得跨海來中國賣茶、種茶。