Before he became famous, Li Mi lived in Dongban, Zhangzhou, and was just a wage earner in a fruit shop here. Li Mi could write, so he used his skills to help the shop owner write bamboo sticks for export. Once, Zhangzhou Lugan came to the court as tribute, and Li Mi's calligraphy followed the oranges to Beijing. The elegant and exquisite calligraphy on the bamboo sticks in the Gancage was actually circulated and collected as calligraphy treasures by knowledgeable people. During the Wanli period, Lin Ju, a scholar of Dongge University, returned to his hometown in Zhangzhou. Due to the construction of Jiaji Temple, he sent a letter to invite Dong Qichang, a great calligrapher in the capital, to write an inscription. Unexpectedly, Lin Ge's kindness was rejected by Dong Qichang, and Dong Qichang replied: " Why don't you ask Li from your hometown? "It turned out that Li Mi's calligraphy had been appreciated by Dong Qichang for a long time. Dong Zeng felt inferior and wrote a letter to ask Li Mi to write. Since then, Li Mi's reputation has grown.