According to legend, his most successful effort was a scroll he wrote for an ordinary household which had a pair of sons, one of whom was a blacksmith and the other a butcher. T'ai-tsu wrote, "This house is heard far and wide; striking out once and again to be the best."
傳說他最得意之作是為一戶民家所撰，此戶兄弟，一為鐵匠、一為屠伕，明太祖寫道：「驚天動地門戶；數一數二人家。」