Unable even to recognize their clansmen .... Unfortunately, it doesn't really matter anymore whether one sees family precepts as well-intentioned advice or as awe-inspiring laws, because the unavoidable fact is that for quite some time now no one in Taiwan has given them any thought at all.
不過，苦口婆心也罷、家法赫赫也罷，都難掩今天家訓在台灣早已乏人問津的事實。