"When I was still a student more than ten years ago, people laughed their heads off at you if you listened to Taiwanese opera sung by Liao Chiung-chih rather than listening to Andy Williams, and went to temple festivities rather than going to the cinema," recalls Li Mao-hsien, executive secretary of the Chinese Folk Arts Foundation, comparing present with past.
「十幾年前，當我還是學生時，如果有人不聽安迪．威廉而聽廖瓊枝唱歌仔戲；不看電影而去趕廟會，準會被笑掉大牙」，今昔對照，中華民俗藝術基金會執行秘書林茂賢感觸良多。