Owing to population pressure, the trend of moving to Taiwan to open up new fields was very strong during the Ch'ien Lung era (1736 to 1796) in Kwangtung Province, where Fan-chiang Tien-kao, the second son of Fan Wen-chih, joined the wave of immigrants to the offshore island.
乾隆年間，廣東省由於人口過剩，省民為生活所逼，移墾台灣的風氣很盛，范文質的二子范姜殿高，也趁此移民熱潮來到台灣。