At first, Taiwan's ketzai booklets were all imported from the Hsiamen area of southern Fukien. But after a while, when the island's first printers took to pirating them, angry mainland publishers began to berate the offenders on the booklets 'covers: "Pirating printers are shameless hooligans" or "Among pirating printers, the men are thieves and the women whores."
早期台灣歌仔冊全自閩南廈門一帶進口，之後本地印刷業起步，變成直接盜印，氣得大陸的歌仔冊書局在書皮上印著「翻印者，無恥小人」、「翻印者，男盜女娼」等惡毒咒語。