Lin Yu-lai, the deceased former owner of Chulin, was a Taiwanese opera performer in his youth.Besides performing, he would often speak in stanzas of four lines and lines of seven characters.

• 已经过世的竹林书局老闆林有来，年轻时是个歌仔戏演员，除了唱戏，平日出口便是七字的四句联，还整理了不少歌仔册。