Today's temple festivals, as well as holding feasts, burn ceremonial boats at millions of dollars a throw and spend billions on fireworks; as for the amount spent on evenings of entertainment in Taipei, is it just limited to "restaurants and cafes?" The old slogans of "frugal worship, working and saving for wealth" are no longer to be seen (Temple Fever p.75).
較諸從前，今天的廟會活動，除了「吃」拜拜外，王船一燒數百萬，砲仗滿地上千萬（七十五頁，廟會發燒）；至於台北人夜夜笙歌的花費，又豈止於「飯店餐館」？只是「節約拜拜，勤儉致富」的標語口號不見了。