Li Zongren, who served briefly as acting president of the ROC at the end of the Civil War between the Nationalists and the Communists, recorded in his memoirs: "Teachers invariably had on their desks a rectangular piece of wood, which we called the 'admonition block.'
國共內戰後期，曾任代總統的李宗仁在他的回憶錄中記載，「先生桌上必備有一塊長方形木板，叫做戒方。