Chen Kuo-tai, who runs a glass shop in Hsinying, recalls that his father, a primary school teacher, applied for the surname Motoyama, which in Chinese characters means "Yuan Mountain," because a mountain near the family ancestral home in Fujian Province was called by that title.
在新營經營玻璃行的陳國泰還記得，那時他的父親因為在小學做教員，他們家也申請改姓「元山」，因為祖先在福建家鄉附近的山叫元山。