The mainland Chinese writer Gu Hua, in an essay entitled "Two Elephants Village" about his hometown of Jiahe in Hunan Province, mentions, "People say that some time ago in the forests around my hometown there were elephants, and peacocks spreading their tails and that the old trees almost scraped the sky, their branches draped in golden birds like colored-cloud blossoms."
大陸作家古華一篇寫故鄉湖南嘉禾「二象村」的文章就提到，「說是更早些時候，家鄉的森林裡有大象出沒，孔雀開屏，參天古樹枝頭落滿朵朵彩雲似的金雞。」