Members of aristocratic and scholarly families there still enjoy teasing their brains to come up with original New Year's scrolls capturing the spirit of the household, while businessmen commission local literati to compose clever couplets befitting their particular trade. In Lukang, the purchase of pre-printed New Year's scrolls is the exception rather than the rule.
書香世家仍絞盡腦汁，撰寫能表現家風的春聯，而商家則禮聘地方文人雅士為他的經營內容製作巧聯，少有不花心思，隨意買印刷便聯張貼的情事。