In 1938 he joined the Franciscan High Priest Seminary at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hankou.
In 1944, he was ordained a priest and returned to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Yichang.
On August 15, 1959, he received the episcopal consecration at the hands of the excommunicated anti-Bishop Hankou Bernardin Dong Guangqing OFM.
At the same time, until 1982, he worked as a physician, transferring his earnings to the seminarians he initially taught personally.
He also practiced afterwards giving medical advice to sick priests and the faithful.