A contemporary account, Ching Pailei Chao (Unofficial Historical Anecdotes from the Ching Dynasty), relates that the disease of gambling was so widespread that "gentry forgot their duties, farmers missed their seasons, and merchants lost their skills."
《清稗類鈔》裡描述花會極盡流毒，「能令士失其行，農失其時，工商失其藝。」