In 1973, Xiang Yang entered the Japanese department at the College of Chinese Culture (now Chinese Culture University), which is located on the slopes of the Yangming Mountains north of Taipei. As a sophomore, he took over leadership of the college's Huagang Poetry Society. At the age of 20, he began to mull over his own creative issues: "What do I want to write?
1973 年向陽考上遠在陽明山上的私立文化學院（現文化大學）日文系，大二接任「華岡詩社」社長，20 歲的他開始認真思考自己的創作問題：「我到底要寫什麼？