In Hsiao Li-hung's novel Water and Moon of a Thousand Rivers, the main female character Chen-kuan's aunt tells her: "When you're grown up, you'll wish you weren't born in the year of the tiger. The tiger's a special birth sign; whenever anyone in the family gets married, you'll have to keep away."
蕭麗紅女士的小說《千江有水千江月》中，女主角貞觀的三妗就曾對貞觀說：「等你大了，你才不想肖虎呢，虎是特別生肖，遇著家中嫁娶大事，都要避開… …」