Huang Huang-hsiung argues that Chiang Wei-shui naturally was the type to mix with the masses as a result of both his family background (his father and grandfather were fortune-tellers) and his role as a doctor.
黃煌雄表示，早年父祖卜卦相命的家庭背景與醫生身分，都使蔣渭水很自然的成為一個走向社會大眾的人。