His colored crystalline glaze porcelain came in first in the National Arts Contest. Then, in 1981, in the Chinese Japanese Porcelain Exhibition his large and fabulously beautiful crystalline glaze astonished the Japanese. Later, a Japanese porcelain critic by the name of Kozo Yoshida wrote a special article about Sun Chao in a specialist Japanese magazine.
他的彩墨結晶釉瓷，為國內陶藝界捧回第一座國家文藝獎美術類的獎座；在一九八一年的「中日陶藝展」上，又以大而瑰麗的結晶釉使日人「驚豔」，日本名陶藝評論家吉田耕三曾在日本專業雜誌上特別撰文介紹他。