Then in 1921 Yen Yun-nien wrote a poem that just missed bringing disaster on himself: "Don't slight me for my schooling, for my pen can describe the filth of our world, the strange, heartless men of armor wreaking havoc on the central plain."
此外，顏雲年曾在大正十年做了一首詩，也差點惹禍上身。「休輕一介是書生，下筆能描濁世情。可怪無腸空帶甲，中原此輩尚橫行。」