Chung's novel Lishan Farm makes use of the bitter harvest which results from an intra-clan love affair to expound on the merits of being able to choose one's own spouse. In the novel, Chung, who lived in the Hakka farming village of Meinung, also paints a vivid and accurate portrait of life in such a community in the latter years of Japanese rule and the early years of KMT rule.
像鍾理和避居在美濃的客家農村，他的長篇《笠山農場》，透過農場裡「同姓戀愛」的苦難與奮鬥，來闡述婚姻自主的可貴，也生動呈現了日治末期及戰後初期客家農村的真實面貌。