Disaster from cartoons In the midst of the war, Niu Gur's mother went to visit him and his siblings in Hong Kong, and, discovering the hard life they were living, took them back to Hankou. After studying in a British system, Niu Gur was exposed to a classical Chinese education for half a year, setting the foundations for the mixed vernacular-classical writing style of his comics.
抗戰中期，牛哥的母親到香港去看孩子，發現他們寄人籬下，生活得很苦，就把他們帶回漢口，原本接受英國教育的牛哥又被送去跟著私塾先生念了半年的「之乎者也」，奠下他半文半白的漫畫文體。