Well-known commercial calligrapher Tung Yang-tzu points out that when she was very young she practiced imitating Ouyang Xun's style. After she had graduated from college, she took some of her calligraphy to be mounted, and the proprietor thought the characters were drawn by an eighty-year-old man.
坊間書法名家董陽孜指出，自己從小寫歐陽詢的字，大學畢業拿字去裱時，老板就以為是八十幾歲老先生寫出來的字。