He died when Tekchiong was eight years old, as a result of attacks on police stations organized by supporters of Û Chheng-hong [zh].

[3] In 1927, he passed the formal civil service examination and became a Tainan Prefecture Patrol officer deployed to Tōseki District (東石郡).

[2] Thng Tekchiong was elected mayoral candidate by all Tainan senators, leaders of villages citizen organizations, and student representatives in 1947, when the February 28 Incident occurred.

After the 21st Division of National Revolutionary Army (NRA) descended on Tainan, about twenty gendarmes broke into Tekchiong's house on 11 March 1947, to arrest him for the crime of rebellion.

During his arrest, Tekchiong burned a list containing the names of people on the Settlement Committee, an action regarded to have saved their lives.