Then, during the Qing Dynasty, a large number of single men from Zhangpu, in China's Fujian Province, moved to Taiwan and married Aboriginal women. As local historian Lin Sung-fan points out with the aid of old photos, the Pingpu women were both beautiful and capable, with a reputation for excelling in weaving and working the fields. They would have seemed like the perfect women to the men of the time.
清朝大量閩南彰浦縣「羅漢腳」（單身男性）移民來台，原漢通婚頻繁，龍井在地的地方文史工作者林松範便提到，早期的老照片裡，平埔婦女眼大貌美又能幹，織衣、下田等粗細活皆有聲有色，以傳統眼光來看，可是當時娶妻的最佳選擇呢。