Yang Wanli (1127-1206), one of the Four Great Poets of the Southern Song dynasty, who saw rhododendrons flowering by the wayside in Jiangxi Province, believed it was pure coincidence that they flowered at the same time as the cuckoo sang.
南宋四大詩家之一的楊萬裡身在江西，破曉見到路旁的杜鵑花，也認為它開時偏值杜鵑聲。