When you die in Penghu, you are put in the ground--and there is where you stay. They don't even have the Taiwanese custom of later putting the bones into an urn. And so it's very difficult to get people to move their ancestors from their resting places or practice cremation. Accordingly, this post within the county government has always been filled grudgingly.
澎湖人重土安遷，陰宅尤是，在澎湖死者只要入土就不再遷動，這裡連揀骨的習慣也沒有，所以想要讓大家遷墳或火葬實在很難，因此墓政業務在縣府一直是個人人不願接的燙手山芋。