The daughter of a poor family, at 15 she started working her own way through school before going to work for the then-popular Sisters Pictorial as an illustrator. A gifted visual artist, her price per illustration rose from NT $ 20 to NT $ 200, and she was hired as an illustrator for advertisements as well.
頗有繪畫天份的她，高中時開始幫暢銷一時的婦女雜誌「姐妹畫報」畫插畫，稿酬從每幅僅新台幣 20 元，一路增加至 200 元，也曾受邀為廣告腳本畫插圖。