From a poor farming family Mayaw Vuyu's parents were over 40 when he was born in 1971 as the youngest of seven children. At the time he was given the Chinese name Wen Kuo-ching.
出身貧農家庭 1971 年出生的馬耀，父母生他時已四十多歲，家裡有 7 個兄弟姊妹，他排行老么，當時還是用漢人的名字「溫國經」。