Originally a hawker of clothes in night markets, when he turned to writing ad copy in Taiwanese he came to feel deeply the difficulty of writing literary Taiwanese and so began researching the writing of Taiwanese. Finally, he went so far as to drive a round the island as a wholesaler of Taiwanese language books and tapes.
原本在夜市喊賣成衣的他，在用閩南語寫廣告詞之時，備感閩南語文字化的不易，因而開始閩南語文字化的研究，最後索性批發各式語言讀本，開輛小發財車，全省各地賣這些語言書、錄音帶。