He recalls that Chiang would start practicing calligraphy as soon as he got home. Chou would often watch him at work, and Chiang gave him one of his own landscape paintings as a gift. Chou used it as a model to practice from. It was his first contact with landscape painting.
當時擔任班長的周澄，經常要將作業簿送到江老師家，在他的印象中，江兆申回到家就開始磨墨練字，他經常留下來看老師練字，江兆申還會送自己的山水小畫給周澄作為獎勵，周澄就以老師所送的畫作為畫稿臨畫，開始初步接觸山水畫。