He has contacts with Huang Jingsheng, Tsui Hark and Sammo Hung, and Huang Jingsheng is his most recognized artist.
Since 1980s, Tan Baoshuo has participated in the music production of Hong Kong films such as Huang Feihong Series, Beijing Opera Blues, Green Snake and Infernal Affairs.
Tan Baoshuo recalled David Henry Hwang's death and still lamented that David Henry Hwang was a rare temperament middleman in Hong Kong and Taiwan music circles. Tan recorded the flute part of the Cantonese song Hai Xiao that we sang. Tan Baoshuo recalled that year, "After several blows, Huang Hong still felt that I didn't blow out my passion. He even turned off the lights in the studio and danced with his secretary who will be his wife in the future, which made me excited. "
Over the past 20 years, 90% of the flutes recorded by TVB have been played by Tan Baoshuo, including the early The Journey to the West's Eight Dragons and Eight Branches, the recent Love in the Sea, Palace Map, Heaven and Earth, and of course, the only released Duet of War and Beauty Flute. !
Tan Baoshuo is engaged in writing, and has written "Flute Techniques and Essays", "Fallen Leaves Between Heaven and Earth" and "Hong Kong Story". In recent years, he has written columns for Hong Kong Economic Daily, Warm World Biweekly and Through Train.
Tan Baoshuo is also a painter. His paintings and calligraphy are famous for their lightness and elegance. Most of his works appear in advertisements, books, publications, commemorative plaques and charity auctions. In recent years, he has combined calligraphy with stage performance.