If a troupe can win the Wenhua Prize, the highest honor in the world of Chinese opera, its reputation will soar. The judges at the big contests mostly come from Beijing, and one scriptwriter confides that in order to make gezai xi more accessible to judges who don't understand the Minnan dialect, he consciously tinkers with the dialect in his operas so that it resembles Mandarin as closely as possible.
然而參加會演，評審主要來自中央，一位劇作家就坦承為了方便不懂閩南語方言的評審，參加會演的劇本都會修改成普通話化的閩南語。