Yeh Ji-hsiang, a bamboo carving craftsman, was born in Zhushan Township, Nantou County, one of Taiwan's major bamboo producing areas. Because Yeh’s family was engaged in exporting bamboo products to Japan, he grew up with a close relationship with bamboo. He also experienced the gradual decline of the once-prosperous traditional bamboo processing industry through the fate of his own family's factory.
In 2016, Yang Fu-tzu took part in a Soil and Water Conservation Bureau project in Penghu. Interacting with residents of the small fishing village she was working in, she came into contact with the unique local stone weirs for the first time and immediately fell in love with them. In 2019, Yang and her partner Jerry Tseng co-founded Isle.Travel Studio, focusing on keeping the Penghu stone fish weir tradition and culture alive and thriving.