1980-1996, taught at Tianjin Hongqiao District Staff University;
1996-present, taught at Tianjin Normal University School of International Education Exchange;
1999 ——2003, Vice President and Secretary-General of Tianjin Linguistic Society;
2003-2007, Vice President and Secretary-General of Tianjin Linguistic Society.
Main works: "Rhetoric and Language Issues in Classical Poetry", "Rhetoric and Culture of Words", "General Theory of Folk Culture Vocabulary", "Tianjin Dialect Dictionary", "Research on Tianjin Dialect Culture", "Tianjin Dialect" and Jingu Culture" etc.
Professor Tan focused on Chinese rhetoric in his early years and achieved fruitful results. He was highly praised by the older generation of linguists such as Xu Zhongyu, Hu Yushu, Zong Tinghu, and Liu Shuxin. In the mid-1990s, Professor Tan began research Folk language has also achieved gratifying results and attracted the attention of the academic world. After retiring in 2006, he tried his best to find a new path, focusing on "dialect vocabulary and folk culture" as the academic axis, and devoted his main energy to the study of Tianjin dialect. He edited the "Tianjin Dialect Dictionary". He promoted the Tianjin dialect pronunciation archiving project and achieved a series of significant results, becoming a veritable leader in Tianjin cultural research.
In 1998, Professor Tan was invited by the Chinese Rhetoric Society of Taiwan to attend the first high-end cross-strait academic seminar on rhetoric together with Professor Wang Dechun, Professor Wang Xijie, and Professor Zong Tinghu. Professor Tan has won many honorary titles such as "Tianjin Advanced Individual in Language and Writing Work", "Tianjin City Language and Writing Work Special Contribution Award", "Tianjin City Outstanding Worker in Social Science Popularization Activities", and has been featured in "Tonight News" and "Middle-aged and Elderly Times" Media such as "Daily News" and "City Express" have successively launched columns such as "Exploring the Meanings of Words", "Tianjin Dialect", "Tianjin Wise Words", "Tianjin Wei Lao Hutong", "Tianjin Place Name Examination", etc., and published hundreds of popular science articles about Tianjin urban culture. articles.