On Zhang Xueliang's 90th birthday his old friends in Taiwan and his former subordinates jointly put their names to a congratulatory birthday message, this limited return to public life symbolizing the end of over half a century of seclusion. On New Year's Eve of the same year he expressed his feelings with the words "No fear of death, no love of money.
丈夫絕不受人憐，頂天立地男子漢，磊落光明度餘年。」幽居大半生的張學良，九十歲那年，由他在台老友、舊屬聯名為其祝壽下，正式再入紅塵，當年陽曆除夕書此立軸自陳心境。