Professor Yin points out that an official history of Taiwan compiled in 1887 (not long after Taiwan was established as a province) includes many records in which Fujianese make disparaging references to people from Guangdong. The language even gets quite strong at times, with some comments referring to "Guangdong bandits."
尹章義指出，光緒十三年台灣建省後修台灣省通志，還錄下多篇閩人批評粵人的文章，並出現「粵匪」這樣極為歧視性的字眼。