By his own account, Lu Ch'uan-sheng began collecting folk ditties in the Taiwan countryside as a study assignment during his student days in Japan.
據呂泉生的說法，他到鄉間採集民謠，始於日本念書的時期，初為課業所需，後來因為東寶日劇的工作需要，他又再度接觸了民謠採集。