His family unable to get out of the mainland in 1949, he took up solitary residence in a small house in Chungho, near Taipei, to pursue a scholarly life of books, music, and poetry.
退出商場之後，他先後在陽明山、中和鄉間小屋，過著研究南管、讀古文、吟詩、寫字的隱居生活。