The late Chen Cheng-hsiang, a well-known scholar of culture and geography, described the Nanjing of the 1940s thus: "In late March at Nanjing by the lower Yangtze, the peach and plum trees blossom, and in April the catkins begin to fly."
已故的知名文化地理學者陳正祥描述三○年代的南京：三月底，長江下游的南京桃李始花；四月，南京柳絮始飛。