Jan Kuang-yin, who served as the general's aidede-camp for a long time, watched Chen grow up. He says that the war forced the Chens to move frequently during Chen Lu-an's childhood, from his birthplace in Lushan to Hubei, to Chongqing, to Nanjing after victory over the Japanese, and then on to Shanghai.
根據長年追隨陳誠、從小看著陳履安長大的副官冉廣銀回憶，由於戰事倥傯，陳履安的童年是在不斷遷徙中度過：從出生地廬山到湖北，到大後方重慶，到勝利還都後回到南京，再遷往上海……。