Ouyang Yuqian, who was an expert in Peking Opera and modern arts, also contributed a lot to the renovation of traditional dance.

Tanizaki and Ouyang Yuqian maintained friendship for over 30 years, something rare in Sino-Japanese exchange in the history of modern literature.

In fact, Ouyang Yuqian' s dramatic writings in the 1920s and 1930s were influenced by Tanizaki either ideologically or artistically, also.