Yuan Chang-rue, head of the Anthropology Section at the Taiwan Provincial Museum, raises the theory of "identity supernaturalism." He states that Chinese people believe that similar sounds can produce similar outcomes, so that "identity of pronunciation" has become the foundation of many allegedly beneficent numbers.
台灣省立博物館人類學組組長阮昌銳提出「模擬巫術」的說法，他表示，中國人相信相同的聲音會產生相同的效果，因此「諧音」成為許多所謂吉祥數字的依據。