Besides mastering the traditional scholarly accomplishments of the lute, the game of go, calligraphy, and painting, he was accustomed to giving himself a fanciful sobriquet as the mood took him, another refined habit of the Chinese scholar.
琴棋書畫不說，他隨心境不同自取字號、命名書齋的習慣，也純粹是中國文人的雅好。