The involvement of Ilan's local cultural elite in planning the rebuilding and organizing the fair, and the new ideas they applied, attracted a great deal of media attention and caused the events to be described as "a turning point in Taiwan temple culture."
由於在重建與廟會策畫的過程中集合了宜蘭地方文化精英的新觀念，因此備受媒體矚目，並譽為「台灣廟埕文化的新契機」。