Born in Changting, Fujian, 1935. Graduated from Philosophy Department and Philosophy Institute of Taiwan Province University. He has been an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy of Taiwan Province Provincial University, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, a visiting professor at the Department of Philosophy of Peking University, and a professor at the Department of Philosophy of Taiwan Province Provincial University. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Taoist Cultural Studies. He is the author of Nietzsche, Nietzsche's New Theory, Existentialism, Zhuangzi's Philosophy, Laozi's Annotation and Translation, Zhuangzi's Annotation and Translation, Huangdi's Four Classics Annotation and Translation, Laozi and Zhuangzi's New Theory, Yi Zhuan and Taoist Thought, the Construction of Taoist Yi-ology, and Guanzi's Fourth Edition Interpretation. After retirement, he also worked part-time in the Department of Philosophy and Culture University of National Taiwan University. Since 2003, he has been teaching in the "national" Kaohsiung Normal University on the topic of "Taoist thought research".
"The Humanistic Spirit of Taoism" won the "Subdivision Award" in the Global Chinese National Studies Festival.