While others her age hung out in cafes and went out shopping, Tang would be in the studio, trying to better understand ethnic dance and practicing folk dances from Mongolia and Xinjiang, even learning other Chinese minority folk dances such as the Dai people's Peacock Dance and Dunhuang dance from northwestern China.
為了鑽研民族舞蹈舞步，當同年齡的孩子泡咖啡廳、逛百貨公司血拚時，花樣年華的她則是在學校舞蹈教室中，拚命練習蒙古、新疆，甚至傣族的孔雀舞、西北的敦煌舞等少數民族舞蹈。