Drawing on the experience of their predecessors, he reasons that, although the festival is known throughout Taiwan, Toucheng is after all a small locality that does not need overly lofty lanterns. Setting the lanterns at a modest height will avoid the inauspicious situation of having hungry ghosts from neighboring villages and townships crossing over into Toucheng.
遵循著前輩的經驗，李裕堂表示，頭城搶孤雖然是全國知名的活動，但頭城畢竟只是一個地方鄉鎮，燈篙高度不宜僭越，只設一丈多，以免招來其他鄉鎮鬼魂跨界爭食，發生不祥之事。