In 1993 and 1994, under the leadership of the Love Meinung Alliance, people from Meinung, wearing traditional blue Hakka shirts, went up north to the Legislative Yuan to protest the establishment of the reservoir.
穿著客家傳統藍布衫的美濃人，在愛鄉協進會的帶頭之下，於九三年和九四年兩次北上，到立法院抗議水庫的興建。