At that time he was working at Fengchia Elementary School in Taichung, and he found that many of his students were like he had been as a youngster bored with the "watch Spot run" readers. And so he filled time left over from lessons by teaching the children to read the classics.
那時他在台中逢甲國小任教，發現許多小朋友像他自己小時候一樣，對「小貓叫，小狗跳」的課本內容不大感興趣，於是便利用課餘時間把經典古文「塞」給小朋友。