The biggest blow has been that in a fast-paced metropolis populated by people working 9-to-5, "who has the time and interest to care about the old rhythms?" asks Chen Kuei-fei. Last year on the Double Ninth Festival, she made ten bamboo sieves of red turtle cakes (with 20 in each sieve), of which six batches went unsold. "Doesn't anybody pay their respects to their ancestors anymore?
一個最大的衝擊是，繁忙的都會裡，大多是朝九晚五的上班人口，「誰有閒暇、閒情來在乎這些旋律」，陳癸妃說，去年重陽節，她做了十個竹篩的紅龜粿（一篩二十隻），結果剩了六篩，「是不是大家都不祭祖了？