He went on numerous treks in the wild with Dr. Yang Yuan-po, a water plant specialist, and his parents bought him reference books and gave him subscriptions to various foreign plant magazines. Now, he is one of only a few who understand much about Taiwan's marshes and swamps.
他跟隨水生植物專家楊遠波博士跑了不少野外，而雙親也為他從國外訂了大量的生物雜誌與參考書，現在，他幾乎是少數對台灣濕地沼塘最瞭解的人。