At a time when NT $ 1.2 million would have paid for a house, Tu was willing to pay NT $ 300,000 for a single Fukienese dialect dictionary. One can see from this just how much he has put in and how much importance he has attached to his collection.
在一百二十萬可以買一棟房子的時代，他就可以花三十萬買一本福建方言字典，由此可見他對這些收藏所投注的心血和重視。