At the age of 29, he finally received a rejection letter from the editor-in-chief of a publication that he had been insisting on submitting for many years. The letter wrote: "You are a hard-working young man, but your knowledge is too narrow and your life experience is too pale ... However, from your years of contributions, I found that your pen handwriting is getting better and better ..."
This letter inspired Zhang Wenju and pulled him out of the dead end. After that, Zhang Wenju gave up literature and practiced hard, eventually becoming a famous hard-pen calligrapher.