After one of her performances in 1951, Chiang Kai-shek was stirred with hope for a counterattack on the mainland and took up his pen and wrote the four-character slogan "Let us never forget we are in Chu" (a feudal state that held out under siege).
民國四十年初，她為老總統獻唱了一齣「木蘭從軍」，戲後，老總統說：「我們反攻大陸有希望。」於是提筆寫下「毋忘在莒」四個字。