The poet Hsiang Yang has described a certain place in Hualien in a laudatory piece as a "sleeping silkworm," where "mountains, streams, ocean, and rivers are all forced together in a single place.
詩人向陽在一首讚美花蓮的詩作中，形容花蓮像一條「眠蠶」，「山川海河被一塊逼到此間」。