A platform of history The tradition of helping others as a matter of duty was passed down from generation to generation in the Li family. But when it reached Yen Hsiu-feng's husband, Li You-pang of the fifth generation, it ran up against unprecedented challenges, for the 1895 Treaty of Shimonoseki had made Taiwan a Japanese dependency.
歷史的講台以濟世救民為職志的李家仕紳一脈相傳，傳到嚴秀峰的先生，李家第五代的李友邦時，卻碰到前所未有的變局，一紙「馬關條約」使得台灣變成日本的屬地，傳承中原文人風骨李家，深藏著台灣人的民族意識。