In part because the men left the farming villages to find work and in part because flexible female waists made for more pleasing performances, the troupes came to be made up largely of women. Then the performers started leaning over backwards to pick up money with their teeth and doing somersaults.
又因農村壯丁外出工作，女子腰骨柔軟，跳起布馬較易討好，而改為女子出陣，並加入翻斛斗和下腰咬錢的表演。