The aged Sai Yue-chin became a staff member at the Fujian provincial archives, and later worked from her sickbed with scholars collecting oral histories. She was appointed to the local People's Political Consultative Conference in Xiamen, and passed away in 1986.
年紀老邁的賽月金是福建省文史館館員，在病中為歌仔戲作資料口述，當上了政協廈門市委員會委員，於一九八六年病逝。