Today, however, the port has long since silted up. As it fell into disuse, the former harbor was replaced by an expanse of ponds where farmers began to raise the products for which Chinhu was long noted: asparagus, tiger shrimp, and eel.
滄海桑田，數百年前，金湖人的祖先來到這一塊避風良港卻不利耕種的「鹹水地」，搭寮捕撈。