 A "ballad-narrative" () known as "The story of Xue Rengui crossing the sea and Pacifying Liao" () is to written in the Suzhou dialect of Wu Chinese.He also appears famously as a hero in Chinese folklore in which he is the father of the fictional general Xue Dingshan and the father-in-law of the Turkic princess Fan Lihua.The story of Xue Dingshan and his wife Fan Lihua is often used as a subject for Chinese opera.