When the Manchu court issued orders to present special honors to the courtiers and recluse scholars of the previous dynasty, it tried to appoint him as magistrate of Mei Hsien in Kwangtung province.
當滿清入關，改國號為大清時，曾詔告天下明臣逸士進朝加封，他亦被任命為廣東梅縣縣命。