The scholar Cheng Hua also admired the piece and said that it rivalled the works of such first-rate literary masters as Pan Ku and Chang Heng of the Han dynasty (206 B.C.--220 A.D.).
另一位學者張華也很欣賞他的文字。左思的文章簡直可以直追西漢班固、東漢張衡等一流文學家。