At that time there were no music stores where you could buy tapes, and the official media still wouldn't play this kind of music. People had to rely on crude cassette players to copy and re-copy Teng's tapes. Nevertheless, within a year or two, her music had swept China north to south.
在沒有「音象店」（唱片行）可以買卡帶、「風花雪月」類的歌曲根本不被正統媒體播放的年代，人們靠著那時一種單卡的「磚頭錄音機」一再轉錄她的歌曲，一兩年內傳遍大江南北。