"There's been a serious population outflow from the mountain areas in recent years," says Takeng Mayor Yang Tseng-p'ing, adding that fewer than twenty of the hundred or so families that lived in the village in the past remain.
「近幾年來，山區人口外移現象相當嚴重」，大坑村長楊曾坪說，過去山區住有百戶人家，如今數目不足廿戶。