This is especially so with the range of devotees expanding from local to national. The change of the great temples to being run by small groups of managers is also weakening local participation in the process of planning temple festivals.
尤其是信徒由地方逐漸擴至全國，廟務改由少數管理員參與的大廟，往往更削弱當地居民們參與廟會籌畫過程的機能。