Taiwanese literature had entered an anti-communist phase after the war, and writing from a Chinese perspective was a politically correct thing to do. Chung, a Taiwanese author who had not personally experienced communism, could not but write from his experiences in rural Taiwan; this may explain the high rejection rate he encountered in those years.
戰後的台灣文壇「反共文學」當道，大中國思想是政治正確的文壇主流，但對共產黨未有親身經驗的本省作家，卻只能以台灣鄉土為寫作題材，故退稿率極高。