Even when she was dying of illness at age 79, she spent two months memorizing Li Ling's "Letter to Su Wu," the longest selection in the Qing-Dynasty classical literary anthology Guwen Guanzhi.
即便在 79 歲病逝前，她還花了兩個月時間，背完《古文觀止》中最長的一篇──李陵「答蘇武書」。