Huang writes in his book In Search of Hakka Roots: "The Hakkas were involved in the earliest settlement of some parts of Taipei County, but after the armed clashes many of them moved south to counties like Taoyuan and Hsinchu." The armed clashes were not always between the Fujianese and Hakkas.
「台北縣有一些地方的開發與客家人有關，不過後來因為械鬥的關係，而往南遷移到桃園縣或新竹縣的很多」，《客家人尋根》一書也指出。