As an indication of the numbers of people who consult temple oracles, the popular Lungshan Temple takes around seven to eight months on average to get through half a million divination poems. Almost every temple big or small throughout Taiwan has sets of bamboo strips for drawing divination poems, so clearly plenty of people use this method.
以香火旺盛的名剎龍山寺為例，平均七、八個月就要耗掉五十萬張籤詩，而台灣各大小廟宇幾乎都設有籤筒，可見求籤人口還真不少。