’Swaying side to side like a rose in the wind,’ even Zuo Si’s Odes to the Three Capitals pale in comparison to this line.” (1)
1. Zuo Si is a poet in the Western Jin period, his Three Capital Odesinclude ‘Ode to the Capital of Shu’, ‘Ode to the Capital of Wu’, and ‘Ode to the Capital of Wei’.
“Precisely so; such beautiful words would overshadow even Cao Zijian’s ‘Ode to Luoyang’.” (2)
2. Cao Zijian is better known as Cao Zhi, prince and son of Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms period.