Stage performers, who depend on the good graces of the patron deity for their daily rice, place statues of the deity in their homes, and back in the days when troupes traveled from town to town performing on outdoor stages, they would take a statue of their deity with them wherever they went.
靠祖師爺賞飯吃的藝人們，不僅在家中安有祖師爺神像，在過去外台戲時代，由於長年累月在外討生活，戲班就會帶著祖師爺的神像闖蕩江湖。