During the era of the Japanese occupation, numerous booklets describing native Taiwanese life began to appear, such as those describing the luckless prostitute "Chin Kwai" who tied her pants 'strings to her lover's and together jumped into a freight canal in Tainan, dying for love. This even made its way back to the mainland where it was turned into a drama.
日據時期，開始有大量描述本地風土民情的歌仔冊創作出來，像是描寫苦命煙花女「金快」和情郎褲帶相連，同跳運河殉情的「台南運河奇案」，還回銷大陸，改編成話劇演出。