Yet relations among the various clans of Kinmen have not been entirely harmonious. According to records included in An Examination of the Southern Min Dialect, Including an Examination of the Kinmen Subdialect written by Hung Chien-you, inter-clan conflicts, either for material benefit or other reasons, often occurred from ancient times up to 1937, when Kinmen was occupied by the Japanese.
然而金門的各宗族間關係並不全然和諧，根據洪乾祐所著《閩南語考釋．附金門話考釋》中記載，到民國二十六年日本佔領金門為止，各姓宗族間或為利益生計，或為其他原因，常有械鬥之事發生。