The Fukienese tradition of the pan-hsien (literally "playing god") --a pre-performance vignette involving prayers asking for the felicitations of the gods--is still discouraged from being openly performed under the official atheism of Communist China.
閩南民俗裡的「戲前戲」﹘﹘為神祈福祝禱的扮仙戲，在無神論的中共政策下，至今仍不鼓勵公開演出。