In the south, Liu Guan (1270-1342) of the Yuan dynasty wrote in his Hearing the Cuckoo: "In myriad thickets south of the Yangtze grows a flower named the cuckoo. / It blossoms when the bird arrives, and farmers tell each other to plant their spring fields ...." Even further south, on the island of Taiwan, when the flowering season begins of the many native rhododendrons on Mt.
至於長江以南，元朝柳貫「聞子規」，就說「江南叢薄間，有花名杜鵑，開時是鳥至，相戒治春田…。」更南方的台灣島上，原生多種杜鵑花的阿里山、陽明山區花季開始了，耳尖的賞鳥人也聽到了山野裡的杜鵑聲。