Shih also says that although Chen Yi-tsung is still young, he started early and worked hard, and after looking at traditional buildings all over Taiwan, spent two months on his own recording traditional dwellings in southern Fujian; thus his experience is not inferior to that of the old master builders.
他並表示，陳益宗雖然年輕，但是他入門早，又肯努力，看遍台灣的傳統建築後，還獨自花了兩個月的時間到閩南一帶記錄當地民宅，因此經驗並不輸於老師父。