The azalea's mournful beauty In 1941, the fourth year of the Sino-Japanese war, Fang Chien-peng, then a fourth-year philosophy student at Sun Yat-sen University, gave Huang a few of his poems. One was entitled "Azaleas," a piece that captured the feelings of young lovers during that era.
淒美的「杜鵑花」民國 30 年，抗戰進入第 4 年，中山大學哲學系 4 年級學生方健鵬，寄了幾首小詩給黃友棣，其中一首「杜鵑花」，很能代表大時代中小兒女的感情。