In 1987, the Provincial Fengyuan Hospital went to the Huanshan tribe and carried out a survey which discovered that around half the residents normally drank more than one or two bottles of rice wine or beer every day. Among these, around a tenth drank even more than this amount.
民國七十六年，省立豐原醫院到環山部落調查，發覺約有半數的居民，經常每天喝一至二瓶以上的米酒或啤酒，其中約有十分之一的居民，喝酒超過此量。