Trusting entirely to innate skill, he took up the violin and, still plucking it like a sanxian, gave an extemporaneous performance. At the end of the piece, and thanks to the determined advocacy of the chief examiner that day, Tan won admission to the prestigious institution.
他完全以本能應考，拿起一把小提琴，一樣當成三弦即興演奏，曲終在主考官的力排眾議下，譚盾得到了音樂學院的入學資格。