When the sun rises, the flowers on the river are as red as fire, and when spring comes, the water is as green as blue.
——Bai Juyi's "Recalling Jiangnan"
Huang Si's maiden's house is full of flowers, thousands of them. Thousands of flowers hang low on the branches. The butterflies linger and dance from time to time, and the orioles sing at ease.
——Du Fu's "Lonely Walking by the River Looking for Flowers"
Jasper makes up a tree as high as ten thousand branches. The green silk ribbon hangs down.
——"Ode to the Willow" by He Zhizhang
The river and mountains are beautiful in the late afternoon, the spring breeze is fragrant with flowers and grass. The mud melts and swallows fly, and the sand is warm and the mandarin ducks sleep.
< p>——Du Fu's "Quequatrains"The morning rain in Weicheng is light and dusty, and the guesthouses are green and the willows are new.
——Wang Wei's "The Second Envoy of the Yuan Dynasty to Anxi"
Two orioles sing in the green willows, and a row of egrets ascends to the blue sky.
——Du Fu's "Quequatrains"