Haucha elder Kuo Chin-ting says that in the past, people usually avoided swamps, which were over grown with plants and easy to get lost in. Over time, by oral tradition (the equivalent of tribal law), these became taboo areas.
好茶部落長老郭金丁表示，過去許多沼澤地區，因為潮濕陰暗、植物密佈，容易迷路，大家都避免前往，久了成為一代代相傳的口戒，也就是部落的律法。