Ilan resident Lin Chueh-tai wrote in 1916: "A good 80 to 90 percent of the assault-and-battery cases handled by the Ilan prosecutor's office result from fights between the xipi and the fulu .... The authorities have tried to clamp down on all the violence stemming from competitions between the two types of theater, but it's so deeply rooted that not much can be done."
根據一九一六年宜蘭人林覺太的文章敘述：「宜蘭法院的檢查局傷害罪中，十之八九為西皮與福祿之爭所造成… …，當局雖然對於此種因戲曲技藝競賽所造成的紛爭加以禁止，但民眾積習已久，似難以滅絕了。」