At the end of the war, he returned to downtown Hualien. In 1949 Chiang Kai-shek led a million soldiers and other mainlanders to Taiwan, and soldiers turned his elementary school into their barracks.
終戰後重回花蓮市區，1949 年，國府百萬軍民播遷來台，原本就學的國小被軍隊進駐，他和同學們被分配到城隍廟上課。