When Chinese settlers first started coming to Tingpentsai and cultivating the land more than two centuries ago, the scarce water supplies led them to work hard piling stones to create terraced fields and carving out irrigation ditches.
二百多年前移墾到頂笨仔的漢人移民，胼手胝足地在水源不足的山區堆砌石頭梯田、開鑿水圳種植水稻。