Once upon a time in Daxi Township of Taoyuan City, there was a stone shop owner named Jian Wu-shiung. One summer, he saw children playing spinning tops outside his shop. Spinning tops was Jian Wu-shiung"s favorite pastime as a child, but he feared being laughed at for playing with a children's toy. So, he thought to himself, "Perhaps people would not laugh at me if I played with a large spinning top."

Still young at heart, Jian Wu-shiung ran to find his carpenter friend, Hu-dou, and asked him, "Can you make a three-kilogram spinning top?" Hu-dou replied, "Yes, but I need a huge nail for the top to spin on." Jian Wu-shiung said, "Here, try using this chisel." In a few hours' time, Hu-dou made a large spinning top using quality Formosan michelia wood. News of Jian Wu-shiung's large spinning top started to spread in the township.

Everyone came to see him spin the large spinning top. Jian Wu-shiung wound a rope around his spinning top. The rope was as thick as his finger. He tried all the traditional methods he knew, but he could not get the top to spin. The rope either became loose, or the spinning top nearly hit his leg. Eventually, Jian Wu-shiung gave up and told his audience, "If anyone here can make this spinning top spin, I will treat him to a bowl of noodles." Everyone took turns to make the top spin, but everyone failed.

Suddenly, the sound of a spinning top caught everyone's attention. A junior high school student named A-Xing had succeeded in spinning the top. He placed his arms around the top, and flung it diagonally upwards before pulling the rope. Everyone tried A-Xing's technique and succeeded too. So, Chien Wu-Hsiung treated everyone to noodles. Slowly, the spinning tops grew larger in size. The largest spinning top was made from rosewood and weighed about 72kg. It was named "The King of Spinning Tops", and regarded as a township treasure.

In 2002, Daxi Township Office organized a spinning top contest, and hosted the "Daxi Spinning Top Festival"in October of the following year.

　　在桃園大溪鎮有一間石材店的老闆叫簡武雄，有一年夏天，門外有許多小朋友在打陀螺，武雄想起他小時候也很愛打陀螺，可是怕現在去打會被小孩子笑，這時腦海閃過一個念頭：「如果是打大陀螺，應該就不會被人笑了吧！」

　　童心未泯的他，立刻去找木器店的朋友戽斗說：「你有沒有辦法做一個五斤重的大陀螺？」戽斗回答：「可以，不過去那裡找大釘子當陀螺心呢？」武雄說：「用這個鑿刀試試看。」幾個小時後，戽斗用一塊烏心石木做好大陀螺，武雄打大陀螺的事也在小鎮上傳開來。

　　打陀螺那天，簡武雄把像手指粗的繩子纏好，用傳統打法卻一直無法讓陀螺旋轉，不是繩子鬆了，就是差點兒打到腳，簡武雄便說：「如果有人打得動陀螺，就請他吃一碗陽春麵。」附近的大人小孩都跑來試一試，全都失敗。

　　突然，有一陣「唬！唬！」的陀螺轉動聲傳來，原來是國中生阿祥用抱碗公的姿勢，將鐵尖頭斜上丟出去，再抽繩子來讓陀螺轉動，大家也用同樣的方式成功抽動陀螺，武雄就請大家吃麵。後來，陀螺越做越大，最大的一顆是以紅枝木所雕成的大陀螺，重約120斤，成為鎮鎮之寶的「一代陀螺王」。

　　大溪鎮公所於2002年時，以「玩陀螺」為主題，舉辦大溪陀螺爭霸賽，並在2003年10月開辦第一屆的「大溪陀螺節」。