As it turns out, there is a time capsule of sorts available to us-a travelogue written in 1697 by Yu Yonghe. Yu came to Taiwan from Fujian Province and traveled much of the island at a time when most Han Chinese lived in the south and very few people ever traversed the entire length of Taiwan.
時空回到阿公阿婆遊台北的三百年前，一六九七年，《裨海紀遊》作者郁永河從福建來到台灣，當時漢人多集中在南部，少有人能作一趟北部之旅。