When Hsiao received her PhD in education from Indiana University in the United States, her doting father, who worked for the Taiwan Railway Administration as an assistant driver, rushed to ask the head of the ancestral-hall management committee whether his daughter could someday lead the ancestral offerings.
話說 1990 年，當蕭昭君拿到美國印第安那大學教育學博士學位時，在鐵路局擔任機車助理、從小非常疼她的父親就曾興沖沖跑去問家族中的祖祭主委「女兒可不可以當主祭？」