Juan Chang-juei, director of the Anthropology Section of the Taiwan Provincial Museum, suggests that people are most likely to feel the powerlessness of being human when ill, so their hopes and demands for deities will be especially profound.
台灣省立博物館人類學組組長阮昌銳表示，人類在身心病痛之時，特別自覺人的無力及渺小，對神的祈求也就特別深。