When Lin Lan-sheng, a son of the prominent Lin family, died at the age of 12 in 1934, his mother was so overcome with grief that she became a nun.
民國廿三年，台中縣旺族林家的五子林蘭生，（其兄為擔任過台中縣三屆縣長的林鶴年）才十二歲即病逝。林蘭生的母親林許悅，在丈夫去世、幼子夭折的情況下，心情極度悲痛而出家為尼。