At the age of ten, hiding it from his father, he was taken by his grandmother to test for the Peking Opera school, and only after passing the entrance exam did he 'fess up to his father and begin to sit in class and study his father's trade--being an actor in Peking Opera.
他十歲瞞著父親，由奶奶帶著去考北京戲劇學校，考上了才稟告父親，開始坐科，學父親的行當﹘ ﹘文武老生。