Yet in Jin Yong's novel, after Zhang Wuji unites the Zoroastrians in China and becomes their high priest in China, "although Zhu Yuanzhang takes a bad turn and engages in many deceptions to become emperor, because the Zoroastrians [known in China as the Ming], helped him to conquer the land, he felt obliged to name his dynasty after them."
但金庸所說，張無忌統一明教後，成為中原群雄之首，「其後朱元璋雖起異心，疊施奸謀而登帝位，但助他打下江山的都是明教中人，是以國號不得不稱一個『明』字。」