Wayward youth Kung Yi-fang was born in 1949, in the city of Fengshan in Kaohsiung County. He was a country boy, and remembers clearly the water scoop cut from a gourd that his grandmother would use every day. Gourds would often even serve as meals, as his family was quite poor. Sometimes he and his friends would play down by the shed where the gourds were grown.
「跑江湖」的孩子龔一舫，一九四九年生於高雄縣鳳山市，小時候住鄉下，記憶中，外祖母家中每天使用的水瓢杓，即是瓠瓜從中剖開製成；在那貧困的年代，瓠瓜也是母親常端上桌的菜餚；兒時玩伴常聚在瓜棚下戲耍，冥冥中已與瓠瓜結下深情緣分。