In 1975 his father passed away, and his mother and grandmother died in succession the following year. The same year the Gang of Four was toppled, and the Peking Opera Academy restored. He requested that he be allowed to enter the group that his father had once had at the China Academy of Peking Opera, planning to revive the old dramas his father had left behind.
一九七五年父親過世，隔年奶奶及母親又相繼故去，同年四人幫垮台，京劇院恢復，他要求加入父親當年接掌的中國京劇院一團，以圖恢復父親留下的老戲。