His wife spread news of his death throughout the neighborhood, then cut the paper into equal rectangles and burnt it before Ts'ai's coffin, lamenting: "In life he was a pauper and is sure to need funds in the underworld, so let me burn some paper money for him to spend there."
他太太則到處哭號：「蔡倫死了！蔡倫死了！」然後每天把紙割成一樣大小的長方形，在蔡倫棺柩前燒化，邊燒還邊哭道：「他生前太窮，死後又沒金子可帶去，只好燒些紙給他在陰間花用。」