My father arranged with a teacher to have me begin a few basic courses. Later he himself taught me the opera. And I used his lessons as homework, naturally picking it up. "A while ago, he led the Peking Theater Company to Taiwan to perform, says Mei Baojiu.
父親安排了老師讓我開始學些基本功，之後他親自教我學戲，我也把它當成一門功課一樣很自然地學下來了」，前一陣子才率領「北京京劇院」來台灣演出的梅葆玖說。