From Liu Chin-tang's poetry, one can see how the painter's life was pulled by many different forces: his curiosity about new culture, this romantic yearning for his motherland, and his nostalgia for the place he was born and grew up.
從劉錦堂的詩文中，可以知道畫家的生命在對新文化的好奇、對祖國的浪漫憧憬和對故鄉的切切思念中被拉扯著。