To fully understand it, one must look back to his difficult childhood in the remote Hakka village of Fantzulin, a place "forgotten by Heaven" that he describes as existing amidst barren mountains and unruly rivers.
然而他的生命歷程與文學創作，卻是一路坎坷難行。而這一切，要回溯到被他形容為「窮山惡水」的客家庄，一個被上蒼遺忘的僻野村落「蕃子林」的悲苦童年說起。