Most people are aware that his father, Chiang Chieh-chih, was a popular performer of Nankuan opera during the Japanese Occupation, but if you go back far enough you'll find that his grandfather was a performer too, in ch'i-chiao opera, the predecessor of Taiwan opera.
一般人只知他的父親江接枝老先生曾是日據時代當紅的南管戲老生，其實往上追溯，他的祖父也是歌仔戲前身﹘ ﹘七腳戲﹘﹘的演員。