However, with siltation of the Danshui River along with frequent feuds among the three main groups of people who settled the area earliest, their collective prejudice against later arrivals, and their unwillingness to allow foreign firms to set up there, commercial activity gradually migrated to the newly rising district of Dadaocheng (the area that is today around Dihua Street in the Datong District of the municipality).
之後隨著淡水河淤積，以及較早移民至此的三邑人（晉江、惠安、南安）排外情結嚴重，械鬥頻傳，也不願外商進駐，商業中心逐漸遷移至新興的大稻埕（今大同區迪化街一帶）。