The present rural township representative, Chiang Chiang-min, who was also the last speaker of the rural-township council, explains that because in earlier days the Han people could cultivate paddy-fields and had higher agricultural technology and large harvests, the Ami naturally wanted to study them.
現任鄉民代表也是上屆鄉代會主席的江強民解釋，早期的大港口，由於漢人種水稻，農耕技術高、收穫多，自然成為阿美族人學習的對象。