It was not, in fact, until about 400 years ago that mainland Chinese began to cross the straits to Taiwan in large numbers, bringing with them their own culture and causing some of the earlier inhabitants to withdraw to the mountains.
在這種情況下，與大陸有一海之隔的台灣島自然更不樂觀。直到四百年以前，才開始有大量漢人移入，帶來中土文化，使得原來的部落民族，不得不退居高山。