After the departure of the Japanese, who had forbidden Taiwanese to worship in the Chinese manner, "after so many years of restraint, people returned to the temples in droves and revived the old holiday traditions." Business boomed. "Take for example the New Year. From the 20th of the last month of the year to New Year's Eve, we were making cakes from morning till night.
等到戰後日本人離開，「被束縛多年，不能拜拜、作醮的風氣一下子打開」，黃天助說，黃合發的生意大好，「旺季時像過舊曆年，從年二十到除夕，從早到晚都在做粿，頭尾十天只能睡三瞑」，他形容當年盛況。