The two fell in love and got married. Hong had been an opera performer in the army and was well versed in Peking Opera. Cai was a fan of Gaojia Opera, one of the five main types of opera in southern Fujian (very similar to gezai xi, but featuring a greater emphasis on martial scenes, and with song lyrics mostly in the Nan'an dialect of Quanzhou).
這洪電訓原是軍中的文藝兵，擅長京劇，而來自南洋的蔡栽花則是閩南五大劇種之一高甲戲（與歌仔戲十分相近，但較著重武打戲，唱白以泉州南安話為準）的愛好者。