The historian Lien Ya-tang, who wrote a comprehensive history of Taiwan, said that the "golden professions" of that time would design yi-ko with special characteristics for shops, selling items such as tea, incense and medicine.
包括台灣通史作者連雅堂，也曾替當時的一些「黃金行業」，設計具特色的藝閣，如茶鋪的「樵青煮茶」、香鋪的「紅袖焚香」、藥行的「韓康賣藥」等。