Battle ground Two-and-a-half centuries ago, large numbers of immigrants from the Quanzhou and Changzhou regions of Fujian Province in China began to flood into Taiwan. In those days people used the expression "three here, six dead, one returned" to describe the precariousness of immigrant life. It meant, simply, that six of every ten immigrants died, and another one fled back home, leaving only three surviving.
兩個半世紀以前，泉漳人士大量移民台灣，當時人們用「三在六亡一回頭」（指移民者平均十個人裡有六個客死，一個逃回原鄉，只有三個人能就地生存下來），形容移民社會的險惡環境。