After finishing a performance in France with the Ming Hwa Yuan Taiwanese Opera Company, the actress Sun Tsui-feng-the company's "young male" principal-was approached by a Westerner who admiringly asked: "How can a man be so beautiful?"
河北大妞歌仔戲出頭──孫翠鳳與祖師爺緣訂今生明華園在法國演出後，一位外國友人不禁對著當家小生孫翠鳳讚嘆：「怎麼有男人長得如此漂亮？」