1. Who can Yao Huang, Wei Zi, and others lend money to on credit? But the spring scenery in Nanzhong is different, and the city is full of kapok. ——Song Dynasty Yang Wanli's "Cold Rain on March 10th"
2. Remember that on the last day of the month in the south of the city, the kapok tree fell and the erythritia tree bloomed. ——Su Shi of the Song Dynasty "Hainan people do not eat cold food but go to the graves to search for them with a ladle of wine"
3. Several trees are as red as dye for a long time, and some people think they are kapok. ——"Kapok" by Liu Kezhuang of the Song Dynasty
4. In February and March in Guangdong River, thousands of trees are blooming with red flowers. It is like Yao shooting out of the sea in ten days, and like the high platform surrounded by thousands of torches in Wei Palace. It is covered like a bell, raised like a knight, with red petals, flaming stars and horns. A good hero with a thick beard and a big face, how can he lose his strength and high crown? Later, when he came out, he was not famous in vain, and at the same time, Tao Xing was ashamed of his frivolity. Zhu Rongyan Emperor Sinan soil, this flower is the master of all the flowers? The nesting bird must give birth to red phoenix chicks, and the fallen flowers resemble coral trees. Year after year among the five ridges, northerners have no way to look at the beauty. I wish to clothe the world with flying catkins, not to let the snow and wind blow in the cold weather. ——"Kapok Song" by Chen Gongyin of the Qing Dynasty
5. Ten feet of coral is kapok, and the flowers are redder than the morning glow. The trees in Tiannan are all in flames, not as pitiful as the Panzhihua! The towering ancient trunks are competing for the plate, and there are no leaves when they are in bloom! Butterfly cocoons are decorated with white branches, and hibiscus sand is burned in red.
——Qu Dajun of the Qing Dynasty, "The Ancient Kapok Song of the Nanhai Temple"