In Lao Can You Ji, Liu E of the late Qing dynasty uses the divination poem "May all lovers under heaven be united / Wedlock is destined in past lives, do not miss your marriage fate," from the shrine to the Old Man Under the Moon (the matchmaking spirit) at Hangzhou's West Lake, as a congratulatory couplet, and the words have since become universally popular among the Chinese.
晚清劉鶚的《老殘遊記》裡也引用西湖月老祠的籤詩「願天下有情人都成了眷屬，是前生註定事莫錯過姻緣」作為賀聯，而這句話後來也成為中國人琅琅上口的諺語。