According to folk researcher Wu Ts'an-hsing, a long-time observer of the dragon boat ceremony whose grandfather came from Erh-lung, "Once the boats have been purified and the eye painted in, no one is allowed walk across the prow."
有二龍村血統，對競渡觀察多年的民俗工作者吳燦興指出，「龍船經點睛後便具神格，凡人是不可自頭上跨過的。」