Mr. Jian was a talented Taiwanese music composer. During the 1930s, he earned second place in the Japan National Musical composer competition four times (during the Japanese occupation, non-Japanese natives could only aspire to the second place in any of its national competitions). In 1936, his music piece " Taiwan Dance" earned a special award in the1936 Berlin Olympics. Two years later, his piano concerto "Duan Chang" earned the composer award at the International Vienna Music Festival.  He was then recognized as the "Chopin of Taiwan" and the most brilliant composer in Asia. In 1938, he left Japan for Beijing to teach and continued his creation of folk music. Subsequently, he completed a music piece "Grand Opening of Confucius Temple", Music piece #53, Piano concerto #59, 150 pieces of Taiwanese folk songs and " Mountain Ah Li Orchester". When Yeh-Jian died in 1983, the year he earned the TAF Award.