In 1992, when he was 20, Chih-yang won a National Handicraft Award for Struggling Upstream Against the Current, which displays his depth of understanding of the properties of metals and his control over the metalworking process. The different colors of various metals in the work create a marvelous melange effect.
一九九二年，二十歲的陳志揚以《逆流向上》一作，獲第一屆民族工藝獎，成為台灣工藝競賽史上最年輕的工藝師。他巧妙地處理各種金屬的物理性和加工處理過程，在技巧及掌握上，充分表現出不同金屬自然色澤的差異，使作品型、色達到合塑的效果。