Primary school teacher Huang Wen-po, who has made a vocation out of surveying yi-chen, has done field research on chen-t'ou large and small across Taiwan. He divides them into: religious, vignettes, humorous, incense, music, and funereal.
業餘從事藝陣調查的台南縣三慈國小教師黃文博，在對全省大小陣頭做過田野調查後，整理有「台灣藝陣傳奇」二冊，書中細分陣頭為：宗教、小戲、趣味、香陣、音樂、喪葬等六類。