He describes some of the changes that he has witnessed below: Everybody says that the scenery is magnificent, but when I came here as a child in 1934, I thought it was pretty desolate: no electricity, no running water, just oxcarts on gravel roads and straw huts.
以下就是他對成功鎮變遷歷程的描述：現在人家都說成功風光絕倫、美景如繪，但民國廿三年我剛到這兒的時候，一點也不覺得有什麼漂亮。那時此地沒有電、自來水沒接通、街上只有牛車，人們住草房、走石子路，生活十分簡單，老實說，我只覺得十分荒涼。