It really is a case of "performing with one's heart and eyes." Lin Ku-fang, an ethnomusicologist, feels that Kun Opera is exceptionally refined and lacks the "fireworks" of Peking Opera. Its female characters have such a stateliness that it seems just "a backward movement of their hand would stop any kind of harassment."
民族音樂學者林谷芳認為崑曲精緻足矣，又沒有煙火氣，像旦角自有一種雍容大度，「把手往後一擺就不可侵犯」。