But it never let its traditional industry slip away, just as Lukang is today still a center of carving and incense, its historic industries. Young men not willing to go away to work learned the ancient trade, and generation after generation in the same family entered the ranks of paper money manufacturers.
然而繁華退去，卻保住了古老行業不被新社會所淘汰，就像是鹿港至今仍是木雕、製香等古老行業的重心一般。不願遠赴外地工作的子弟，便承繼起家業，一家老小全部投入金銀紙生產行列。