As well as being rich in subject matter, "yi-ko is rooted in the festive life of the masses, and it thus gets new life from following the pulse of the times," stresses Tsai Hsin-hsin, who wrote a dissertation on yi-ko for her master's degree.
除了題材上的豐富，「藝閣因為根植在百姓的節慶生活中，便隨時依社會脈動而注入新生命」，以藝陣為碩士論文的蔡欣欣加強補充。