From these humble beginnings, Ju advanced step by step toward an improbable destiny as a world-renowned sculptor. In 1937, a 51-year-old man served as midwife to help his 41-year-old wife bring the couple's eleventh child into an impoverished household. The boy was named Chu Chuan-tai, but local town folk took to calling him "Ninety-two" because that was the combined age of his parents at his birth.
民國二十六年，五十一歲的朱李記為四十一歲的妻子王愛接生，這個貧寒家庭的第十一個孩子取名為朱川泰，鎮上的人因為他的父母生他的年紀加起來是九十二歲，而喜歡叫他「九二」，也就是日後的雕刻大師朱銘。