1950年,19岁的孙美兰离开家乡重庆,只身北上,投考中央美术学院。因道路阻隔,她到北京时已过了考试报名的时间, 幸亏院长徐悲鸿先生为她写了封推荐信,她才得以参加考试, 并如愿以偿进入了绘画系。那时正是国立北平艺专刚刚改为中央美术学院的时候,美术方面只有绘画系。徐悲鸿先生那时虽 1950, 19-year-old Sun Meilan left his hometown of Chongqing, north alone, voted to the Central Academy of Fine Arts. Because of the obstruction of the road, she had passed the exam registration time when she arrived in Beijing. Fortunately, Dean Xu Beihong wrote a letter of recommendation for her, she was able to take the exam and got his wish into the painting department. At that time, it was only when the National Beiping Art School was renamed the Central Academy of Fine Arts that there was only a painting department in art. Mr. Xu Beihong at that time though