Yang, who taught watercolors, very much liked his young student Chou and knew he was planning to apply to National Taiwan Normal University. Rural schools were ill equipped, and there were no plaster models that Chou could sketch, but Yang figured out a way to borrow some.
楊乾鍾當時教水彩，非常欣賞周澄，知道周澄想報考師大美術系，由於鄉下學校資源不足，沒有石膏像可以練習素描，楊乾鍾還想盡辦法借來。