In earlier years she gathered wild plants and bracken, picked pomegranates and helped the farmers strip the bark from sugar cane to make money and subsidize students who could not study because of poverty.
早年即在埔里山上摘野菜蕨類、拾百香果、幫農人剝甘蔗葉幼苗賺取所得，資助因貧困而失學的學子。