These two excerpts from Lin Heng-tao reminiscences place his own experiences against the background of the local color and legends of the time. The first excerpt tells us about travel between Taiwan and the Chinese mainland in the late 1920s, while from the second we can see the first impressions of mainlanders who came to Taiwan after its return to Chinese rule in 1945.
這兩段林衡道的自述，由己身經驗帶入當年的風土傳說，前者可以反映民國十幾二十年間時台灣與大陸交通的情況，後者可看出光復後初來台灣大陸人的第一印象，典型的「林衡道敘述風格」，為當年留下了第一手史料。