Yet in Taiwan's early days, when the Han pioneers were struggling to wrest a living from the soil, lacquer ware would not have been part of common life. It would have appeared only on the tables of wealthy families, on altars at temples, and in dowries.
在台灣，藏在故宮博物院的漆器是工匠們窮其一生精力作出來討好皇帝的精品，一般民眾在早期移墾社會的艱辛日子裡，很難接觸到漆器，漆器只有在上等人家或是女子結婚的嫁妝，寺廟供桌及神像上用上。