Fifty-two year old Chen Ming-wen recalls that when he was small, on the eve of the monkey festival, the adolescents had to make their own bows, arrows, and shields. In those days there was no liquid ink, and they had to mix sap from plants with charcoal ash to create black pigment. They then used splintered bamboo as pens to paint designs onto the weapons.
五十二歲的陳明文回憶道，小時候在猴祭的前夕，少年們要自己作好弓箭和矛，以前沒有墨汁，他們還必須去取植物的汁液，混合煤炭灰做成黑墨，把竹子尾端敲碎做筆，在武器上劃上花紋。