A physiognomist had told him he was 'swallow-cheeked and tiger-headed, the signs of a lord from far away,' and later he did indeed receive a distant fiefdom in reward for holding the Jade Gate pass.
曾經有個看相的告訴他說：『你燕頷虎頭，飛而食肉，萬里公侯之相。』後來果然守玉門關，封定遠侯呢！