Huang Kuei-chao, whose 40 years of work to record local customs have earned him the moniker "the Iwan scribe," says that the Iwanese believe that a baby isn't a person in the womb, but perhaps the spirit of an animal or a plant. It is only fully human when it is named after birth.
記錄家鄉風俗長達四十餘年而有「宜灣記者」之稱的黃貴潮說，宜灣人相信，嬰兒在娘胎中還不是人，可能是動物或植物精靈的化身，因此一出生要立刻命名，才能完全轉化成人類。