[30] I.e., Ch’ü Yüan.
[31] Practically a quotation from Ch’ü Yüan’s “Life,” by Ssŭ-ma Ch’ien.
[32] Fairyland, sometimes thought of as being in the middle of the sea, sometimes (as here) in the sky.
[33] Lit. “blue clouds people.”
[34] A phrase from Chuang Tzŭ.
[35] Huai-nan is associated with laurel-branches, owing to a famous poem by the King of Huai-nan.
[36] Name of a mountain.
[37] I.e., Hu Tzŭ-yang, a Taoist friend of the poet’s.
[38] Lit. “Feeding on sunset-cloud” Tower, built by Hu Tzŭ-yang.
[39] I.e., T’ai-yüan Fu.