A scruffy bird When Bai Juyi, who grew rhododendrons in his courtyard, saw how people were always going on about the cuckoo, he spoke up in the bird's defense, saying that it was only because people had too many of their own troubles that they imagined the cuckoo wept with overwhelming sadness.
在廳前種杜鵑花的白居易，看人們不斷拿杜鵑作文章，就為杜鵑打抱不平，認為人們自己煩惱太多，才想像杜鵑鳥因積恨過多而嗚咽。