Thus did immigrants to Taiwan carefully preserve the Minnan culture. But Wei Te-wen discovered that, in the evolution of the Central Plains culture of China, Fujian and Guangdong were regarded as border territories and their cultures as "unrefined."
台灣移民如此慎重其事保存閩南文化，但魏德文卻發現，福建、廣東文化在中原文化的演變中仍被視為「不登大雅之堂」的邊陲之地。