Once he placed a cicada specimen next to his worktable. His housemate, the painter Huang He-hsin, asked him: "Would it be possible to carve a cicada wing so that it is transparent?"
有回他嘗試雕刻蟬，桌旁放著隻蟬的標本，當時與他同住的畫家黃孟新問他：有沒有辦法將蟬翼雕到透明？