In this place, Pao-yue rejoined at these words, there are no such things as orchids, musk, resplendent moon or islands; and were one to begin quoting such specimens of allusions, to scenery, two hundred couplets could be readily given without, even then, having been able to exhaust the supply!
Who presses your head down, Chia Cheng urged, and uses force that you must come out with all these remarks?
Well, in that case, added Pao-yue, there are no fitter words to put on the tablet than the four representing: The fragrance pure of the ligularia and iris. While the device on the scroll might be:
Sung is the nutmeg song, but beauteous still is the sonnet! Near the Tu Mei to sleep, makes een a dream with fragrance full!
This is, laughed Chia Cheng sneeringly, an imitation of the line:
A book when it is made of plaintain leaves, the writing GREen is also bound to be!
So that theres nothing remarkable about it.
Li Tai-po, in his work on the Phoenix Terrace, protested the whole party, copied, in every point, the Huang Hua Lou. But whats essential is a faultless imitation. Now were we to begin to criticise minutely the couplet just cited, we would indeed find it to be, as compared with the line A book when it is made of plantain leaves, still more elegant and of wider application!
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