Records say that "to his mind, he was upholding the traditional ideal that 'a man without a queue cannot be called a real man.'" As such, he was hesitant to enter the Japanese-established public school system to study.
資料上記載：「在他的意識裡，保留著『沒有一條辮子拖在背後，就不像是人』的觀念......」，因此遲遲不願到日本人設立的公學校唸書。