"It cost a lot of money to stage a Fujianese opera in those days," says Liu Huchen, leader of the Xiao Kee Lin Troupe. One time for a story set in Shanghai, The Shooting of Yan Ruisheng, they drove a real car onto the stage. And at the end of Delivering the City-girl, the eponymous heroine rode off on a real horse.
「當時的閩劇演出是很大手筆的」，篠麒麟團主劉虎臣描述，有一次他們演上海故事《槍斃閻瑞生》，把真的汽車開上了舞台；演《千里送京娘》，京娘就騎著真馬出場。