Now that the three small links have become a reality and the ROC is working to build infrastructure on its outlying islands, the Matsu locals, who speak in the soft cadences of the Fuzhou dialect so different from Taiwanese, are walking along the road of life, carrying the legacy of history on their backs and toward the legends of the future.
二十一世紀的開始，小三通、離島建設的關鍵時刻，講起福州話委婉含蓄，與閩南人風情大大不同的馬祖人，一如她過去背負的神話圖騰，默默而篤定地走在一條通往未來神話的路上。