Nien clan legend has it that in the early days the family first went to the foot of the mountains in Changhua, but "when they saw that the soil was of the same yellowy, sticky nature as the unproductive soil of their home in the mainland, they turned around and headed back to the coast.
在粘厝莊的傳說中，粘氏的開台祖系先到彰化比較靠山的地方，「一看土地，都是黃土黏黏的，跟大陸『賺沒吃』的土地很像，於是就又往前走到海邊。