The Emperor's loyal subject Chien's father was a coal miner in rural Taipei Prefecture, where Chien was born in the 14th year of the reign of the Taisho emperor (1925).
大正十四年（一九二五年）四月，簡茂松出生於台北州土城庄，父親簡木桃任「山本煤礦」礦工。