This custom has long since fallen into desuetude. Walking out of the joss house and back into the everyday world, one senses how closely the temple was bound up with the local Chinese community.
走出雲林廟，進入現實世界，令人覺得廟與華人的關係實在密不可分；廟在華人在，廟宇傾圯，表示華人已遠離。