"On Returning Home" is a wistful and nostalgic work composed by He on his return to his home village at the age of 85, when he was granted retirement by Emperor Xuanzong in 744, just a few months before his death, after almost five decades of service to the imperial court.The first of the pair, "Returning Home As An Unrecognized Old Man," is particularly well-known, having been anthologized in the "Three Hundred Tang Poems" and appearing in elementary school textbooks in China.《回鄉偶書 · 其一》

少小離家老大回，

鄉音無改鬢毛衰 。

兒童相見不相識 ，

笑問客從何處來？Of his surviving calligraphic works, one is a grass-script copy of the "Xiaojing", currently located in Japan, another is an engraved stele (龍瑞宮記) located near Shaoxing, Zhejiang.