After graduating first in his class in the three categories of Chinese painting, oil painting, and watercolors, in the late 1970s Yuan began a series of paintings of subjects from his childhood home-precious objects stored in his memory-such as traditional family compound homes, rice drying grounds, ox-drawn carts, papaya trees, and temple festivals.
囊括了國畫、油畫、水彩三項第一名畢業的袁金塔，在七○年代末期開始畫家鄉的事物，三合院、晒穀場、牛車、木瓜樹、廟會，這些深藏在記憶中的珍寶。