In his song "Hauling Wine Bottles," written in 1946 just after the Japanese had left Taiwan, the Taiwanese folk singer Chang-Chiu Tung-sung included a line that a junkman shouted as he walked down the street: "Any old tin, copper or books to sell?"
戰後初期，一九四六年，台灣歌謠創作者張邱東松曾以市井百姓藉以營生的百態作素材，自譜詞曲寫出「收酒矸」，歌詞中有一句：「歹銅舊錫簿仔紙倘賣否？」