In the current world of Chinese opera, Sun Yuan-ping, one of the old hands at monkey dramas, and Chu Lu-hao, who's got a serious case of the monkey bug, can't do without a lively performance every year of a few of the exploits of the Handsome Monkey King, another name for Sun Wu-k'ung.
現今台灣菊壇，擅演猴戲的老前輩孫元彬，習得一身猴功夫的朱陸豪，每年也少不得秀幾齣「美猴王」的絕活。