Hu Wan-chuan, a professor of Chinese literature at Tsinghua University, was the first person in Taiwan to carry out a large-scale, systematic campaign to collect local folklore and interview storytellers. At an academic conference on the need to preserve Taiwan's vanishing folklore, Professor Hu noted that the charm of popular tourist sites is due in large part to the stories connected with them.
在台灣最早有系統整理大量民間文學、尋訪民間故事家的清華大學中文系教授胡萬川，在「搶救台灣民間文學座談會」中曾表示，文化景點之所以迷人，在於有故事。