Two years after the Japanese lost the war and Taiwan was returned to China in 1945, Kao, who had been supporting himself as a teacher in Fujian, happily took his family back to Taiwan and spent his last days here peacefully.
民國卅四年日本戰敗，台灣光復，在大陸福建靠教書維生的高銘鴻高高興興地於兩年後攜帶家人回到台灣，從此安享晚年。