As for seeds falling from the moon, he surmised that it was just like the records in history books down the ages of deluges of dust, sand, earth and stones, or feathers, blood, fish and flesh--they were "the work of demons, not proof of an osmanthus in the moon."
至於月落桂子，就像歷代史書中記載的塵沙土石、毛血魚肉之雨一樣，皆「妖怪所致，非月中有桂也」。