To escape from the persecution first of the Japanese, then of the Chinese Communists, his family moved from Yentai in Shantung province to Tientsin in Hopei province, then to Tsingtao, Hong Kong and back to Tientsin again.
姜成濤的童年極不愉快，一直在顛沛流離中渡過。逃日本人、逃共產黨，從家鄉山東煙台到河北天津，從天津到青島，從青島到香港，再從香港回到天津。