When I was a student in Taipei, I'd always do well on tests when it rained. It felt like I was back home. "After graduating from National Taiwan Normal University, he went back to Ilan to teach, and he started studying the history of the region in his spare time with several like-minded friends.
「宜蘭常下雨，在台北念書的時候，每逢雨天我就考得特別好，那是一種近似家鄉的感覺」，師範大學畢業後，他決定回宜蘭教書，並和幾位同好利用閒暇，從事宜蘭史料的研究。