Bringing cloth bags and umbrellas, droves of bachelor settlers wrested a living from the land, opening up the mountain forests to cultivation. They took whatever the environment offered them, based on the climate, the nearby rivers and the altitude.
早年渡台開墾的大批「羅漢腳」（閩南話稱無家單身漢）拎著布包提著雨傘到台灣，篳路藍縷，以啟山林，他們就地取材，依著氣候、河川、海拔特性創造生活空間。