Besides reflecting the durability of the Chinese concept of ancestor worship, such stories also reveal how Chinese ghosts must rely on the living to get by, and how they closely interact with the lives of the living.
這除了訴說中國人的宗族祭祀觀念牢不可破之外，也說明中國鬼的生活仰賴生人支援，並且和生人有相當密切的往來。