Tang Pi-ching, a 68-year-old retired refinery manager who was one of the first to promote moth orchid cultivation, recalls that they did a trial run over a small area at the Hsihu Sugar refinery in 1986.
栽植蝴蝶蘭的推動者之一、六十八歲已退休老廠長唐必敬回憶說，民國七十五年他們首先在溪湖糖廠小面積試種。