As an apprentice to the maestro, Li Jin-Chuan Li, in 1953, Ju Ming started his sculptural career by learning traditional woodcarving of gods. In 1968, Ju Ming went north from Miaoli to follow the modern sculptor, Yuyu Yang. Ju Ming formally became an artist from craftsman at thirty, and then developed the earliest "Nativist Series" mainly on rural subjects like gods, buddhas, carts, buffalos and chickens, which attracted attention in art and literature circles with the first exhibition at the National Museum of History in 1976, and was even turned into one of the symbols of the Taiwanese Native Movement in the 70s.