Seeing that performance skills were being lost and that current practitioners lacked successors, the Shih Ho-cheng ten years ago took 30 college students and teachers to come serve as apprentices and pass along the art of puppetry.
眼見於表演技能的流失，及演師後繼無人，十年前，施合鄭民俗藝術基金會曾招收卅名大學生和老師，承習傀儡。