After being afflicted with a series of plagues and pestilences they vowed they would stop killing people, and named their village in honor of Wu Feng.
大家遂集會討論，認為這是吳鳳變鬼在懲罰他們，於是跪地向天發誓以後不再殺人。革除殺人陋習，功仍在吳鳳吳鳳成仁的故事雖有多種說法，但他除去山胞殺人祭神的陋俗，確實功不可沒。吳鳳鄉也是為紀念他而命名的。