For the Malaysian Chinese, who have diligently struggled for years as a minority community and have long harbored a sense of mistreatment and estrangement, the troupe's sounds not only stir the human heart and beat away the mental gloom of drummer and spectator alike, but also, as Malaysian Chinese poet Wen Renping wrote, "rouse our cultural memories and evoke a cultural nostalgia in us, conveying a unique, remote beauty."
對長年在異族土地上兢兢業業奮鬥，卻始終有著委屈與流放感的大馬華族來說，節令鼓聲不僅撼動人心，在搥擊中發洩了鼓者與聽者的心中塊壘，而且正如馬華詩人溫任平描寫的，「它敲醒了民族的文化記憶，它勾起了民族的文化鄉愁，傳遞著一種獨特邈遠的美。」