The impact of the Cultural Revolution did not come to an end with the Cultural Revolution itself. According to Yang Fu-ling, an assistant professor at TzuChi University whose doctoral dissertation was a comparison of gezai xi in the PRC and Taiwan: "The generation of directors who graduated from the academies and took part in the model operas of the Cultural Revolution have continued to be very deeply influenced by the model operas ever since."
而文革的影響並不隨著文革的結束而結束，以「台閩歌仔戲之比較研究」為博士論文的慈濟大學助理教授楊馥菱指出，「那一群學院出身、參與過文革樣板戲的導演，在改革開放後的編導上，都還深受樣板戲影響。」