Tight restrictions on travel to and from Kinmen, furthermore, made it extremely difficult for those who left the island to get back for a visit during more than four decades of military administration of the island (martial law wasn't lifted in Kinmen until 1992, five years after it was lifted on Taiwan). The enforced separation made people from Kinmen pine all the more intensely for the place where they grew up.
由於經濟或安全的原因，許多金門人不得不離鄉，但解嚴前長達四十多年的軍事管制與交通不便，使得僅一水之隔的旅台金門人歸鄉路迢迢，遠望家鄉的思念情懷，讓他們更重視所來之處。