After the founding of New China, he successively served as a professor of Chinese Department in Nanjing University, Zhejiang Normal University and Hangzhou University. In the meantime, he co-edited Selected Poems of Shanghainese with Sun Wang and others, and was elected as the vice chairman of Zhejiang Branch of Chinese Writers Association. 1980: Consultant of China Lu Xun Research Association, Vice President of China Writing Society and President of Zhejiang Writing Society.