In September 1988 he made his first visit to the family ancestral home--Ningho County in Hopeh Province--travelling with his mother. The photographer recalls how that twenty-one day trip gave "this youth from across the Taiwan Strait his first taste of an experience that rocked him to the core.
民國七十七年九月廿八日，他第一次隨母親回到河北省寧河縣探親，在短短廿一天的返鄉旅程中，范毅舜說他這名對岸來的年輕人，首次嘗到了身心受到巨大震撼的滋味。