In recent years, there's been a noticeable "return-to-nature" -style cultural trend in Hualien, in which writers going through a "life restructuring" head to Hualien and even end up staying there.
文人歸鄉近年，花蓮可觀察到一股「文人下鄉」趨勢──作家為了進行人生的「階段性盤整」而旅居甚而定居花蓮。