Not only does the name of the main hall appear above its main entrance, this entrance is also flanked by a couplet that voices the motto that the family has lived by for hundreds of years. At Ku's home, this couplet reads, "Our line begins in the days of Kings Yao, Sun and Yu" and "Our origins are in Yue [modern Guangdong]."
除了正廳門上的堂號外，兩旁貼著的「楹對」是這個宗族幾百年來謹遵的族訓，古德福家寫的是「系出三皇上」、「基開百粵先」。