The living are more important The Chungte Plain where Yang lives was the site of research by Japanese scholars from an early date. There they discovered the 3000-year-old remains of a neolithic culture. During science class, Yang often takes his students out into the field to search for stone implements.
他所居住的崇德台地早年就有日本學者在此作研究，發現這裡有三千年前新石器文化的遺蹟，楊明輝常利用自然課帶學生到附近田野撿拾石器。