Yang Ming-hui says that indigenous people's adaptation to Christianity is similar to how Chinese accepted Buddhism: They simply moved their ancestral tablets off to one side. Although indigenous people have accepted a foreign religion, traditional beliefs still have some of their authority.
楊明輝認為，這種情況就像漢人信了菩薩之後，把神桌上的祖先牌位往旁邊移一點，原住民雖然接受外來宗教，對傳統信仰仍存敬畏。