If the old ones haven't disappeared, then they've been altered. The new chen-t'ou are continually appearing, but there's fear that 'bad money forces out good money.' If you don't start surveying and organizing the material now, there won't be time, "says Huang Wen-po, explaining the reason why he has begun to do a survey of yi-chen.
老的陣頭不是消失，便是改良了；新的陣頭又一直冒出來，還有劣幣逐良幣的隱憂，再不調查與整理就來不及了」，這是黃文博開始作藝陣調查的原因。