Huang Yi-nung, who saw some Qing-dynasty popular almanacs when he was an exchange scholar at Leiden University in the Netherlands, has studied the roughly 90 different tong shu currently in use in Taiwan. He has discovered that more than two-thirds can be traced back, directly or indirectly, to those produced by the "Jicheng Hall" of Quanzhou in Fujian Province.
曾在荷蘭萊頓大學看過清朝通書的黃一農，對台灣現有幾十種左右的通書做過研究，發現大約有三分之二以上是直接或間接師承福建泉州繼成堂。