Being close to his grandfather in his youth, Chuang got up with the old man before dawn each day and helped in taking the cows to pasture and doing the other morning chores around the farm. By the time he was a teenager, he was out in the fields himself with a plow.
從小和祖父膩在一起，八歲就跟著祖父天不亮起床，幫著牽牛去吃草，家裡好開始一天的農事；十多歲就到田裡插秧、犁田。