The well-known novelist Gu Lung once wrote a scene in which Ximen Chuixue refused to let Princess Danfeng use the jian because she was unworthy-she had violated the rules of the martial arts world by attacking someone from behind.
豪邁放恣的古龍，就曾描述西門吹雪不准假丹鳳公主用劍，因其背後傷人有違武林規矩，不配用劍。