"These ketzai are like lyrics to popular songs today," says Tsang Tang-sheng, an associate professor of Chinese at Changhua Normal University, "except they're not written by one writer but are created by the public, generation after generation."
「歌仔冊就像今天的大眾流行歌詞，不過它不是由某一個作詞者所作，而是一代代由大眾集體創作而成」，彰化師範大學中文系副教授臧汀生表示。