Abandoning portrayals of landscapes and figures, he reached back to the profound poems of his days in the Chinese literature department at Peking University, using them as a grounding and an accompaniment to his paintings. Thus, we have the paintings "Woman Gazing at a Pair of Swallows Flying by the Window" and "Seventh Evening of the Seventh Moon," so lyrical, so suggestive of the literary realm.
跳開風景、人物的描繪，他還以北大中文系打下的深厚的詩賦底子，做詩配畫，畫出抒情富含文學意境的「燕子雙飛」、「七夕」等作品。