It is said that ten years ago Lin got up the nerve to write a letter "correcting" some errors in one of Kuo's articles. Upon receiving the letter Kuo immediately made an appointment to see Lin, and thereafter Lin became Kuo's student. He periodically went to Kuo's house to study scholarly methodology.
話說十年前林漢章大膽寫信「指正」郭立誠文章中的錯誤，郭立誠收信當天立即約林漢章見面，從此林漢章成為郭立誠的「入室學生」，定期到老師家學習做學問的方法。