After the shipwrights enter the yard, they may eat no meat, and "after two months 'work, you're just skin and bone," says Wang Tsung-ming, whose family have been building royal ships for three generations.
建船的師父一入「闈場」即開始茹素，「兩個月做下來，瘦得只剩一支骨」，一家三代做王船的王聰明表示。