"He was the first person to record the folk ditties of Taiwan in Western musical notation, and the first to transform these into songs," confirms Taiwan ethnologist Chuang Yung-ming.
「他是第一個用五線譜記錄台灣民謠，將閩南語民謠由謠變歌的第一人」，台灣民俗學作家莊永明如此定位。