For all these reasons, phonograph cylinders were not cheap. Lin holds up a 1938 recording of the Taiwanese folk song "Loving the Year Round," issued by Nitto Records, and explains, "Records during the Japanese occupation were 78-rpm records made of shellac. Shellac is collected from the excretions of a Southeast Asian insect, the lac beetle.
林本博拿著一九三八年由日東唱片發行的《四季紅》曲盤表示：「日據時代的七十八轉曲盤，成分大多是『蟲膠』；這是東南亞的一種『蟲膠蟲』所吐出來的分泌物，經收集後，作為製造曲盤的主要原料，所以稱為蟲膠唱片。