Indeed, many people feel that Ho Lo's Taiwanese opera is really more like "Peking opera in Taiwanese." The fact is inescapable that much of Taiwanese opera has its roots in Peking opera.
很多觀眾覺得河洛的歌仔戲像是「台語版的京戲」，事實上歌仔戲的確是從京劇中學了不少功夫；一如京劇在定型過程中，也自地方劇種吸收各種精華。