The Taichung Middle School, which opened in 1914, was the first school in Taiwan founded by native Chinese, and it opposed the education of Chinese children under the highly prejudicial Japanese system.
民國三年，他和幾位士紳募款成立台中中學校﹘﹘省立台中一中的前身，這是本地人在台灣創立的第一所中學，用以對抗日人對台籍子弟受教育的歧視。