In Taiwan Poetry Societies Lien Ya-tang says that there were a total of 66 such organizations in Taiwan in 1924. The figure had ballooned to 178 by 1936, according to the Taiwan history Taiwan Tungchi.
連橫在「台灣詩社記」統計，民國十三年全台灣有六十六所詩社，「台灣通志」則統計民國二十五年有一百七十八所。