In the book The Travels of Lao Can, Liu E goes to Jinan Prefecture in Shandong. There every home has a spring and each a weeping willow. It is a city with "lotus on four sides and willows on three."
《老殘遊記》裡，劉鶚前往家家泉水、戶戶垂楊的山東濟南府，是個「四面荷花三面柳」的都會。