When Yang was five, his family moved to Xindian, Taipei County, to run a chicken farm in the mountains. The land behind the 2,400-square-meter farm was uncultivated, uninhabited, and mountainous. Yang spent virtually every afternoon alone out back, catching crabs, shrimp, and guppies in mountain streams.
5 歲時，全家遷居台北縣新店七張的山腰上經營養雞場，約 800 坪的土地，後山荒蕪杳無人跡，楊恩生幾乎每個下午都獨自在後山捉螃蟹、溪蝦、大肚魚。