Later she was admitted to National Taiwan University's Chinese department, and started seeing a lot of films. Those films, as well as poetry classes by renowned professors of the department such as Cheng Chien's on classical poetry, Yeh Chia-ying's on the Tang-Dynasty poet Du Fu (712-770), and Yu Ta-kang's on Tang poet Li Shangyin (c. 810-858), helped her find her aesthetic sense.
考上台大中文系後開始大量看電影，而中文系的幾門精彩課程：鄭騫的「詩詞選」、葉嘉瑩的「杜詩」、俞大綱的「李商隱詩」，更為她開啟了真正的心靈美學。