Old folks said good harvests meant war. When the Japanese came in 1937, the fish catch was so good they couldn't sell them all, "Hsu Wei-chuan, a teacher at Kinmen high school, recalls.
老人家說，金門的豐收年往往也是戰爭年，民國廿六年日本人來時，金門漁獲也豐收到賣不出去﹘﹘金門高中教師許維權回憶。