What the sages Yao, Kao Yao, Tzu- ch'an, and Yu looked like we have no way of knowing, but from the passerby's words we can see that Confucius must have had rather short legs.
帝堯、皋陶、子產、大禹，都是古代明君賢臣，但他們的額頭、後腦勺、肩膀長得什麼樣，卻難考察。綜合各種猜測，只知道孔子大約是頭頂凹陷（故名丘）、額頭隆起、身長過人，但路人說他「腰以下不及禹三寸」，可見是個短腿。