The era of combat and survival of the fittest

  At the beginning of its development, Taiwan was in a time of bloody clashes and survival competitions; it was a society of combative men with a very small number of women immigrated to the island. Also, because it was not easy to settle down and live a peaceful life, the majority of men stayed single throughout their lives.  These men did not have burdens of families and private properties like land and gold on their shoulders, hence it became very natural for them to join local gangs sooner or later. There was another group of men whom had no land, no wife and offspring, and whom were not scholars, farmers, merchants nor laborers. These men visited whorehouses, gambled, stole everything from food, money to clothes and shoes from the innocent; they were known as “Lo Han Jiao,” vagabonds dressed in rags.