Or they quote the frightening words that the seniors of the tribe said to them: "If you don't do it, you'll marry a man from the flatlands." In the era when ethnic Chinese and indigenous people still did not interact, living away from home was probably the most unbearable thing for them.
要不就是引用族中長輩嚇唬的話：「不文，就會被嫁到平地去」﹘﹘在漢人與原住民仍然隔絕的年代，遠離家鄉，或許這就是最嚴重的事。