Worst of the bogeymen After the Communist Party came to power, art was expected to serve politics. Private theater troupes were totally reorganized. All the Taiwanese Opera troupes there were made into state-run troupes, and their theater genre became known uniformly as Xiang Opera. Performers from Taiwan still living on the mainland were not exempted from the sweeping new changes.
共產黨統治大陸之後，藝術服務政治，民間戲曲也全面改革，劇團經過收編合併變成公立實驗薌劇團，滯留台灣的歌仔戲演員也不例外。