He graduated from the Hualien Industrial School in 1945, the same year that Taiwan was freed from the Japanese occupation. To earn a living, he became a teacher at Ming Yi Elementary School, attending Hualien Teachers College for further training. His teaching career lasted thirty years.
日據時代他在花蓮公校念了四年（舊制），台灣光復時正好畢業，為謀一職在身，就到明義國小當老師，同時赴花蓮師專在職進修，就這樣在當地度過卅年的教職生涯。