As a child Ch'en Chien-ming would often get caught up in crowds going to see some folk opera performance and then lose his way home. Only three minutes walk away from his house was Triangle Park, where wandering singers and ointment peddlers would congregate to play the crowds and sell their wares.
小時候，他經常一路追著「迎熱鬧」的隊伍玩，而迷失了回家的路；而離他家不過三分鐘路程的三角公園裡，便是台灣南北二路走江湖賣唱、打拳賣膏藥的聚集地。