Misfortunes came one after the other, and the Huang family was down on their luck. One day in 1816, Huang read T'ao Yuan-ming's "A Poem to Stop Drinking Wine." This poem consists of twenty lines, each of which contains the word "stop" in it, for a total of twenty "stops" in all.
到了嘉慶廿年，有一天他又讀到陶淵明的「止酒詩」，這首廿句的五言詩中，每一句都有一個「止」字，共計廿個「止」。