According to a colorful local description, puppetter of the Yi Wan Jan troupe in Taipei, Li Tian-lu, has accomplished the feat of "relating the events of one thousand years with one word, and conjuring up one million soldiers with 10 fingers.
隨著時代的變遷，布袋戲的演出不再像傳統的那樣嚴謹；而台北市「亦宛然掌中戲團」的老演師李天祿卻始終堅持傳統，並有心將他「一口道出千秋事、十指弄成百萬兵」的絕技傳揚下去。