Cui Yuan's motto is translated as follows: There are many tall houses, which must cover your innocence. Full of gold and treasure will disturb your spirit. Good food brings disaster, and beautiful women can put you in danger. If you try to climb high, you will fall down. If you want to be rich, you will be poor. It is my treasure to control my feelings and block my desires. The inscription on the Zhou Temple was read by Confucius. You must be careful not to run counter to the society at that time and treat glory and dust equally. Don't say people are silent, they don't know you. Don't say that you are in a dark room, you can run amok. Being alone should be treated like being with a crowd. When you see happiness, don't get it first, so you won't be adjacent to disaster. Keep the purity and simplicity of Xuanzhenhua, and don't violate the fundamental principles of interpersonal relationships. Always be as wary of fear as facing the abyss, and always keep your innocence.
Cui Yuan, a calligrapher in the Eastern Han Dynasty, was impulsive when he was young. Because his brother was killed, he killed his enemy in a rage and then ran away alone. A few years later, the imperial court granted amnesty before returning home. Cui Yuan knew that he had suffered a great disaster because of his recklessness, so he made an inscription (a style) on the right side of the seat to warn himself.