"Regard wealth as a floating cloud and career as Mount Tai." This is a common evaluation of the teacher's demeanor by students at home and abroad, and it is also the spiritual motivation of his decades of overseas Chinese affairs work. Although with the promotion of his position, his reputation is getting higher and higher, and there are more and more guests, he still lives as usual and insists on living in the dormitory of an ordinary residential building of 30 square meters. The organization wants to adjust the housing for him many times. He always says, "I won't move until all the needy families in the city live in new houses." After serving as the chairman of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese, he was provided with a secretary, a waiter and a special car according to regulations, and the old house was repaired, but he politely declined. 1983 On his 90th birthday in April, the overseas students sent 654.38+10,000 yuan in birthday gift money, and he immediately transferred to his hometown to set up welfare undertakings, so that more than 400 villagers in Minzhu Village of Yingfengqiao Township used electric lights. 1989 95th birthday, overseas students presented a birthday gift of HK$ 250,000, all of which were donated to Zhang Culture and Education Foundation to reward students with excellent academic performance and teachers who made great contributions to education. 1April, 1992, at the invitation of overseas students, I went to Hong Kong to celebrate my centenary birthday. Known as "a model for overseas Chinese educators" and "an outstanding figure in promoting Chinese culture".

1992 died in Beijing on August 30th at the age of 99. 、