He also won the exhibition's overall award. Yet with World War II raging, people's financial wherewithal was limited. Though he was a child of the gentry, the policy of rationing forced him to roll up his sleeves, don a farmer's hat and plant rice.
然而隨著二次大戰戰況激烈，民生物資短缺，貴為地主少爺的他，為了因應戰時的糧食政策，也捲起褲管、戴上斗笠，下田播種插秧。