During the cultural revolution the writer was forced to work as a farmer in the countryside and as an electrician in the factories. But she studied hard and was able to pass the exam for overseas study, making her the first person from Szechwan to study abroad since 1949.
又如作者在文革期間下鄉做了農民，又進工廠做了電工，她卻憑努力學習通過考試，竟然成為整個四川九千萬人口在一九四九年以來第一個到西方去留學的人。