Luo Chi-kun, a young photographer who fell in love with Chiufen's peace and quiet and set down roots here, describes how different Chiufen is today from the way it was five or six years ago: "Before when I came here from noisy Taipei I would sit on the staircase and, except for the sound of the wind and the rain, the world was totally silent."
當年愛上九份的寧靜，選擇在九份生根的年輕攝影工作者羅濟昆形容現在的九份和五、六年前有多麼不同，「以前我從吵雜的台北來到這兒，一個人坐在階梯上，除了風雨聲之外，世界是一片寧靜。」