Ch'en Min-feng, who has been in the business of carving wooden idols for twenty years, recalls, "Seventeen or eighteen years ago a sculptor's monthly salary was somewhere around NT $ 5,000 per month. The town mayor made only NT $ -3,000 per month."
從事神像木雕達廿年的陳敏峰回憶說：「十七、八年前，一位雕刻師傅月薪新台幣五千元，鎮長一個月才賺三千元而已。」