Beyond Shirozu Takahashi Tsai's younger brother, who was working for a friend in a mountain village in Hualien, invited him for a visit in 1979. In those days Hualien had two professional dance troupes, one of them belonging to his brother's friend Chang Ching-po.
由於弟弟在花蓮友人的山莊工作，1979 年，蔡百峻受邀到花蓮遊玩，當時花蓮有兩支專業舞團，友人張清博的「紅葉山莊山地舞蹈團」是其中之一。