Unwilling to bring production: In primitive times Puli was a vast lake; later the water disappeared, leaving a basin filled with extremely rich lake-bottom soil. This made Puli into a main agricultural center in Central Taiwan, with the major claims to fame being red sugar cane and bamboo shoots.
埔里在原始時代是個大湖泊，後來湖水乾涸形成盆地，留下沉積湖底的豐沃土壤，造就埔里成為中部山區的農業重鎮，並以紅甘蔗、茭白筍為大宗。