After graduating from primary school he only tested into a third-rate school. "Life was very hard and I hated studying. Everyone said that children who studied Peking Opera would not turn out bad," says Wu, explaining how he entered into the Fuhsing Peking Opera School.
華興小學畢業，考上了個三流學校，「生活苦，我又不愛念書，人家說學平劇的孩子不會變壞」，吳國秋就這麼進入復興劇校。