There are more than 300 registered Taiwanese opera troupes, which looks to be a huge figure. However, many of these exist in name only, and more than half of the total are really song-and-dance shows falsely registered as Taiwanese opera.
登記三百多團的歌仔戲班，看似龐大，然而一半以上是歌舞團的冒名登記，還有許多是有名無實。