Li Ching-hui, who was attracted by the flourishing new cultural life in Ilan to leave her job with a Taipei newspaper and move to Ilan, and who played a key role in organizing the temple fair, has overheard some of the locals 'comments about her and her colleagues: "They've come to build a temple and put on a show, they haven't come to worship our Princes."
為宜蘭新興蓬勃的文化生機召喚、而辭掉台北報社工作定居宜蘭，在這次廟會中扮演行政要角的李靜惠就曾耳聞地方上對他們的一些評語：「他們是來蓋廟、辦活動的，而不是來信阮王公的。」