First he entered the Whampoa Military Academy, as one of its second intake of students. There he absorbed concepts of democracy and human rights, and, on the special recommendation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen, went to learn Mandarin in the home of veteran Republican revolutionary Liao Zhongkai.
他首先投入黃埔軍校第二期，吸收民主及人權觀念，並蒙國父孫文特別關照到革命元老廖仲愷家中學習國語。