In rural Taoyuan, he saw the farmers toil, and in Hsinchuang he got a taste of the industriousness of the common people. He drew upon what he saw for character backgrounds and plot elements for his novels.
在桃園鄉下，他看到農民的辛勞；在新莊，他體會庶民的勤勉，而這一切都成為他小說中人物的成長背景與故事取材來源。