Liu Dapeng studied under the teacher since childhood. At the age of 23, he graduated from Tongfeng Academy in Taiyuan County and entered Chongxiu Academy in the provincial capital the following year. He was appreciated by Yang Shenxiu, Dean of the College, and made great progress in knowledge. He was a member of Wu Jia Imperial Examination in the 20th year of Guangxu reign (1894). Twenty-one, twenty-four, twenty-eight years, failed the Beijing exam three times. I don't meet my talents and live in seclusion in my hometown. In the meantime, he worked as a teacher for nearly 20 years in the school of Wu Youqing, a businessman with a ticket number in Nanxi Village, Taigu County, Shanxi Province. 19 14 returned to Dayuan county, his hometown, and served as the principal of the county primary school, running a small coal mine and planting a small amount of land.