Except for a thin stretch of western Taiwan's coastline settled by Chuanchow and Changchow Fukienese and a few Pingpu indigenous peoples, Shen was welcomed only by deep, forbidding mountains. The Han Chinese living on the coast called these "Fanshan," or "savage mountains."
除了泉漳人士及一些平埔族墾植的西海岸狹長平地外，一大片深密的山巒冷冷地對他凝視。這片山巒，當時居住在沿海的漢人稱之為「番山」。