There is a poem "Cross Order" praising honest officials: "spotless, uncorrupted, thoughtful, praised all around, all corners of the country, six gods, seven emotions, eight-way demeanor, nine springs innocent, commendable."
There is a "cross order" to describe gamblers: "Win money with one heart, your eyes are red, your food is tasteless, your limbs are weak, you give up your five jobs, your six relatives are hard to recognize, you are full of smoke, you borrow money from all directions, you get stuck in a quagmire for nine (a long time), and you are 100% disaster."
During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, some people described the ugly image of traitors with the "Cross Order": "Slave's face, drooping hands, flashing triangular eyes, staring all around, with abnormal facial features, six qi showing yin, seven-inch long neck, eight or two small heads and nine yellow beards, which is very unlike people."
When the famous painter Fu Baoshi visited Changchun, Song Zhenting, then Minister of Propaganda of Jilin Provincial Committee, received the master painter. Although they met for the first time, they became bosom friends after a long talk. After Fu Baoshi returned to Nanjing, he couldn't help writing a poem "The Cross Order", which vividly described his feelings: "At first sight, two hearts are close, three students are lucky, four bodies are uneasy, five emotions are blazing, six desires are empty, seven emotions are hard to die, eight friends are friends, and nine people don't regret it, which makes me yearn! Some people extract famous sentences from ancient poems and make them into a "cross order", which is also interesting: "An apricot goes out of the wall, but no flowers are seen in the mountain city in February, and three mountains and a half fall into the sky, and a charm is on the banquet, while the stars are getting thinner, and Stark sings five times to bang the bugle, and no one in the army will move. On the seventh day of July, in the Changsheng Hall, it is eight feet long and square. "Here are eight famous poems by Ye Shaoweng, Ouyang Xiu, Li Bai, Li Jie, Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Han Me and Han Yu. Famous people gather, witty remarks are continuous, and interesting.