For his daughter, Chen Pan, her mother, and her stepfather are separated into households of people from different countries: "Hakka" and "Mandarin." When she is with her father, she has always used only Hakka to speak to him.
對女兒來說，陳板和母親、後父是分屬「客家人」和「國語人」兩個不同國度的人，面對陳板，女兒向來只以客家話和他交談。