For more than 200 years, glove puppet plays followed pioneers into and around Taiwan. Today, traditional puppet plays are hard to find. Most temples just offer simple presentations of plays about the immortals and of thanksgiving accompanied by taped music that few people come to see.
兩百多年來，布袋戲隨著先民腳步傳到台灣，傳統戲曲在今天多已萎縮，經常廟會戲台上的布袋戲只是播放錄音帶，簡單演出「扮仙」酬神戲，而台下也找不到幾個觀眾。