Farmers there frequently hold fairs to sell their oxen, based on a practice worked out 300 years ago by the national hero Cheng Cheng- kung (Koxinga), who introduced a large-scale agricultural system to Taiwan.
早期的台灣是個純粹的農業社會，由於馬匹很少，牛不但是主要的耕作動力，同時也是運輸交通工具，非常受到重視。尤其在嘉南平原的農村之中，更佔有極其崇高的地位。