Kung recalls the hubbub unleashed by the "native soil" literary movement in 1977, when work by Huang Chun-ming, Wang Chen-ho and other writers of that school first began to appear.
龔鵬程回顧，在民國六十六年的「鄉土文學論戰」時期，台灣開始出現黃春明、王禎和等所謂的「鄉土文學作家」。