This was the thinking behind Tsao's gathering together of various groups for the Wax Apple Festival. According to the archives, 400 years ago Linpien was a plains-aborigine settlement called "Fang-suo-she." In the middle of the 17th century the Ming dynasty loyalist Zheng Chenggong (also known as Koxinga) brought an influx of settlers to Taiwan from the Fujian and Guangdong regions of China.
根據文獻記載，四百年前的林邊原是平埔族的聚落「放索社」，鄭成功來台後，漢人由閩粵移墾，放索社的部分原住民與漢人通婚，有些則移居他處。