Ghost legend
According to Lin, there was a story that Zhong You often did not go to court in his later years. Someone asked him why, and he said, "A woman often comes, and she is beautiful." The person who asked him said, "This is a monster. I want to kill her. " Later, the woman came to Zhong You again, afraid to go forward, and stood outside the door. Zhong You asked her why she didn't come in. The woman said, "You want to kill me." Zhong You said, "Nothing." With a kind invitation, the woman walked into his room. Zhong You killed her, but he felt sorry for killing her, so he couldn't do it. But in the end, she cut her thigh, and the woman immediately ran out to wipe the blood with cotton wool in her clothes, and the blood spilled all the way. The next day, Zhong You sent someone to look for it along the blood trail. As a result, a beautiful woman appeared in the coffin. She looks like a living person, dressed in white silk, embroidered with patterns on her vest, and her left thigh is injured. The woman wiped the blood from her leg with absorbent cotton on her vest.
Obsessed with calligraphy
It is said that when Zhong You was a child, he followed Liu Sheng to Baodu Mountain and studied calligraphy for three years. Zhong You often talks about calligraphy with Wei Taizu, Han Danchun, Dan Wei and others. On one occasion, Zhong You borrowed a painting from Cai Boyi, but didn't lend it to him. Zhong You was so angry that he pounded his chest and vomited blood. Cao Cao took out five pills and let him take them, only to save his life. After Dan Wei's death, Zhong You ordered a grave robbery, and finally got this "Cai Bo brushwork". Since then, Zhong You's calligraphy has become more and more refined. Zhong You concentrates on learning calligraphy, sometimes writes with his fingers while lying in bed, and often wears out the quilt that covers him. Sometimes you forget when you go to the bathroom. Seeing all kinds of objects, he thought of calligraphy, tried to write it down and draw it. Zhong You is also good at tricolor books (i.e. inscriptions, articles of association and notes).