Strengths on both sides of the Strait: Because academic students have wanted only to do research on the art and others have wanted to study only how to exorcise ghosts in order to get work for a troupe of their own, only the most superficial understanding of the techniques is being passed along.
海峽兩岸各千秋學生偏重學術研究，而民間學藝者又多半只求學會出煞便可自立門戶，至於操弄技巧往往只摸了皮毛，「真是收了徒弟，絕了工藝哦！」