In September 1940, he attended the Ningbo County Private Three-One Middle School (宁波县私立三一学校).
[2] On October 27, 1940, the Japanese Unit 731 dropped a bacterial bomb on the downtown area of Ningbo, and the plague broke out suddenly, killing more than 100 people in just ten days.
[2] On April 19, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Army occupied Ningbo, and the school was forced to disband.
[2] In 1942 he was accepted to Ningbo Normal High School (宁波高中师范学校), where he met Li Pingzhi (李平之), a music teacher who had a profound impact on him.
[2] After graduation, due to the Nationalist government not recognizing his education background, he had to wait for work at home.