Hong Dian-xun and Cai Zaihua met in the midst of the war between China and Japan. Hong, a native of Henan Province on the North China Plain, was in the Kuomintang army, which he followed as far south as Fujian Province. There he met up with Cai, an overseas Chinese girl returning from Singapore.
對日抗戰期間，原是國民黨軍人的河南青年洪電訓一路往南到了福建同安，遇上了新加坡歸僑蔡栽花，原本一北一南、隔山隔海的男女，就在戰爭的牽引下結成了夫妻。