Her father graduated from the National Hangzhou Art College, but due to the turmoil of war he never painted a single picture. Yet he was very much in the avant-garde as a person. When he took his daughters out for a walk he would only talk of sunspots, and never discussed anything trivial. In those times high school girls were supposed to keep their chests wrapped in a cloth.
父親畢業於杭州藝專，因為戰亂沒有畫過一張畫，可是人很前衛，帶她和妹妹散步時，講的都是「太陽黑子」，完全不在生活小事上打轉。