The ballet that Liu learned as a child, and the modern dance she studied later, both derived from Western culture. Yet, the deeper she got into them, the more she desired to understand her own roots. But it was not until her third year in university, when Manchuria was recovered from Japan, that she could again have contact with Chinese culture.
劉鳳學從小學芭蕾舞，長大又學現代舞，都是源自西方的文化，然而投入越深，想要瞭解自己根源的渴望也越來越強烈，但要一直等到她大三那年政府光復東北，才再度接觸中國文化。