As the river silted up and the sea retreated miles to the west, another piece of land came into being farther downstream. Chinese settlers arrived here and called it Chou-tzu-wei, meaning "the tail of the little islet."
河沙慢慢淤積，大海又西去數公里，在下游造就另一片土地，漢民族腳步登上這塊沙地，以閩南語叫它「洲仔尾」。