Describing the history of the sailcart, Tsai Li-ching, chairman of the Lukang Educational and Cultural Foundation, begins the story by noting that back in the mid-Qing dynasty (around the mid-18th century), Lukang was a boomtown. Boats traveled back and forth constantly between its harbor and the Quanzhou region of Fujian Province on the other side of the Taiwan Strait.
提起風帆車的歷史，鹿港文教基金會董事長蔡麗卿指出，清朝中葉，「二鹿」風華正盛，和對岸泉州舟楫往返不斷。