Li Hsiu-chin, a professor in the traditional arts research center at the National Taiwan College of Arts, who spent three years in the Philippines carrying out research into folk music, says: "Both the Kim Lan Musical Association and the Tiong Ho Sia Chinese Music Association, the two earliest langjun societies, were in effect secret societies for the Chinese in the Philippines."
「不論是金蘭或是長和這兩個最早的郎君社，應該都是早期華人的秘密會黨」，現任國立藝術學院傳統藝術研究中心教授，曾在菲律賓做過三年民族音樂調查的李秀琴指出。