Nan Fang Shuo points out that although this type of leisure activity beats watching the TV or playing mahjong at home, amusement parks and recreation areas are false, manufactured worlds. They make pretend suspension bridges and cable ways, they stage the way of life of the aborigines, or they manufacture encounters with ghosts or pirates.
南方朔即指出，雖然這種休閒方式比坐在家裡看電視、打麻將好，但是遊樂園和渡假區畢竟是個虛構的、模擬的世界﹘ ﹘它模擬吊橋、索道，模擬原住民的生活方式，或者模擬遇到鬼和海盜。