So the idea of planting osmanthus trees to bring fragrance to the garden of a ruler's holiday residence was put into practice as long as 2000 years ago in the Han palace gardens; and looking back, former heroes seem no more than fleeting visitors blown by the autumn wind, and the stories of them ancient and hackneyed.
原來行宮苑囿，植桂飄香，早在兩千年前的漢代宮苑，就有此雅事；而英雄豪傑，到頭來只如秋風過客，也是老掉牙的故事了。