First, students from Chukuang Elementary School put on a captivating performance of "The Monkey King vs. the Water Palace." Then came news that a group of professors at National Taiwan University had collected some NT $ 800,000 to build a new puppet theatre. People suddenly seemed to care about puppets again.
先是莒光國小的一群孩子們，居然一板一眼地演出了一齣規規矩矩的「孫悟空大鬧水晶宮」，接著傳出台大教授們組成的一個布袋戲社團居然湊足八十萬元，訂做了一個戲台，於是關心布袋戲的人，似乎一下子又多了起來。