-after the bird stays in the river, the firefly is in the white dew. -Jia Dao's "At the Peak"
-blue dust, dark fragrant ditch, fragrant bed firefly flow. -Wang Shucheng's "Hundred Poems of the Palace, Blue Dust and Dark Fragrance Ditch"
-Streams and grasses are rare for fireflies, and mountains and moons grow for maples. -Cao Ye's "Early Autumn Sudian Society"
-flies sing black walls, fireflies empty. -Yuan Hongdao's "Drawing a Picture"