Brand-name bananas The Ku family had been among the social elite in southern Taiwan for many generations. They trace their roots in Taiwan back to the late 1700s, when an ancestor was recorded as having immigrated from Meixian County in Guangdong. He settled in Meinung and began growing bananas and rice in both Meinung and Chishan.
乾隆末年，古家三十三世祖從廣東梅縣渡海來台，在南台灣的客家村──美濃落腳，以種植香蕉和稻米為業，田產橫跨美濃和旗山。