The main reason for this difference is that the north is relatively urbanized, and chen-t'ou are an accoutrement of rural society, brought together by a central temple or clan. It is hard to find geographic or blood ties of this strength in the city.
有此差別，最大原因應是北部較都市化，而陣頭本是依附在農村社會，由一個角頭的寺廟或家族召集村人，加以訓練而成，這樣地緣或血緣的力量，在都市已難聚合。