Romantic poet Xu Zhimo of the May 4th Movement period would often brave heavy rain to climb the hills and visit the os manthus trees, just to see whether their flowers "were as coquettish as last year."
而五四時代的浪漫詩人徐志摩，平日裡冒著大雨上山訪桂，只為一探桂花「有沒有去年的媚」。