Chang and Chou get together every year for birthdays, with Chang cooking a meal for the two of them in his apartment. Over the years, it's become something of a ritual each uses to assure himself that the other is still alive.
他和詩人周夢蝶的情誼也是另一段文壇佳話：每年生日，周夢蝶總是到張拓蕪家吃他燒的菜，年復一年，成了一種確認彼此存在的儀式。