From returning to one's native village to visiting ancestral graves there, to bringing Matsu back to her native home, and even to going to the mainland in search of old relics, there's nothing unusual about the search for one's roots. Mainland popular opera--Hsiang Opera--is one of the few types of drama that showed up in different forms on the other side after having its origins in Taiwan.
返鄉祭祖、媽祖回娘家，乃至於到大陸尋訪古蹟、追本溯源都不稀奇，大陸歌仔戲﹘﹘薌劇，卻是少數在台灣發源後，在彼岸形成不同風貌的劇種。