Later she won a singing competition with a Hubei folk opera composition entitled "Visiting Ying Tai." (Hubei folk opera songs were updated and made popular by filmmakers in the 1960s.) She gave up her formal education in her third year of middle school and began performing in floor shows.
後來以一曲黃梅調「訪英台」獲得歌唱比賽冠軍，初三時放棄學業，開始在歌廳客串演出。