Just how popular was tea-picking opera in Hakka communities? Ku Te-fu, a farmer from the township of Chishan in Kaohsiung County, recounts the tale of his uncle's marriage. The uncle hired a tea-picking opera troupe to entertain the wedding guests and planned for the celebration to last five days, but people came complaining on the second day that nobody in town could get any work done because everybody was watching the performances.
當年採茶戲在客家庄非常受歡迎，在旗山務農的古德福記得，大伯父娶親時，請來採茶戲團作戲，原本計畫演出五天，但第二天就有人跑來罵，原因是大家都不做事跑來看戲，於是最後兩天只得取消了。