Wang Fu-chang, an assistant researcher at the Institute of Ethnology of the Academia Sinica and a specialist on the opposition movement in the 1980s, says that at that time many people in the crowds at the temple were indeed deeply dissatisfied with the government.
對七十年代黨外運動頗有研究的中研院民族所助研究員王甫昌說，當時許多在龍山寺聽演講的群眾的確心懷對政府的不滿情緒。