1. "Three or two branches of peach blossoms outside the bamboo are a foreteller of the warmth of the spring river. The ground is covered with wormwood and short reed buds, which is when the puffer fish is about to come." - Su Shi, one of two poems in "Late Scene on the Spring River in Huichong" 》
2. "I laugh at myself because I have been busy with my mouth all my life, but my career has turned ridiculous as I grow old. The Yangtze River surrounds Guo and I know the beauty of fish, and the mountains with good bamboos feel the fragrance of bamboo shoots." - Su Shi's "First Arrival in Huangzhou".