Fighting shoulder to shoulder, Yeh became fast friends with Chang Wen-huan, Lu Ho-juo, Lung Tsung-ying, and other Taiwanese writers, and found his thinking much enlightened as a result. It was the budding of his sense of Taiwanese consciousness.
葉石濤和張文環、呂赫若、龍琮英等本土作家不打不相識，從而得到啟蒙，鄉土意識萌芽。