Dao's CD, The First Snows of 2002 (2002年的第一場雪), released in 2003, made him an instant star in China.
Dao toured the Chinese cities of Chengdu, Chongqing, and Xi'an, as well as the autonomous region of Tibet, for more than four years as a young bar-hopping musician.
Dao experienced a surge of popularity in 2023 with the release of his album There Are a Few Folk Songs (山歌寥哉), based on the work of Pu Songling.
Dao was considered by the Beijing Music Society [3] in 2002 as the "Best Pop Singer" and "Artist of the Year".
[4] The only other young artists that had received this honor were Cui Jian in 1987 and Huang Yujie in 2008.