Living through the chaos of war, his family fallen on hard times and himself reticent from childhood, he argued that he was "born an old man." But he always had a passion for books and grew up memorizing the "Four Books and Five Classics." To this day, he can recite the Four Books from cover to cover.
生逢戰亂，家境很苦，而他從小沈靜寡言，自言「生下來就是個小老頭」，卻偏酷愛讀書，幾乎是背「四書五經」長大的，直到現在，「四書」仍可以由第一句背到最後一句！