Lugu Township, Nantou County, is located in the hillzone of western Taiwan. Because of the distribution of hills,mountain and valleys, the circumstances are not good for the cultivating. In Qing dynasty, immigrants settled there and cultivated tea trees on Dongding tableland, Dashuiku tableland and so on. By planting and marketing this commercial crop, the capacity of land supporting in Dapingding was enhanced. Owing to some discovery of local historical information recently, we can comprehend tea farming history here in Qing dynasty and compare it with tea marketing history in northern Taiwan. According to these historical information, there were trailblazers cultivated the wilds into tea fields on Dongding tableland in primary Daoguang period. Then the planting extended to Cheguangliao, Neihu, Dashuiku and so on. The historical information reserved at Su family which culitaved Dongding and Chen family which cultivated Dashuiku proved that some families planted and marketed tea from their primary cultivating stage. They sold tea products in order to exchange for food and later they accumulated capital to purchase property such as cultivated farms and bamboo forests. Besides the main planted species-Shi tea, tea farmers, based on commercial managements, planted different species of tea tree brought from other place several times to improve tea quality. Although there were quality tea, however, Lugu never became the supplying place of international tea trading labour division in late Qing periods. It was because the absence of traffic benefit such as international trading port. Lacking the affection of globalization in late Qing dynasty, tea farmers continued their traditional peasants farming in Dapingding. Their tea trading merely complemented to western Zhanghua-Yunlin plain and other native markets in Taiwan.