In that era Taiwanese had been marginalized, and you could even be fined for speaking Taiwanese in school. Xiang Yang had no problems getting his Mandarin poems published in the literary supplements of newspapers, but his Taiwanese poems were accepted only by journals that paid nothing.
在那個「講方言要被罰錢」的年代，台語被歸為「邊陲語言」，他的中文詩在報紙副刊都能順利發表，但台語詩只能放在沒有稿費的詩刊。