[40] I.e., T’ai-yüan Fu.
[41] A brother of Prince Ch’ēng, of the Chou dynasty.
[42] Yang Hsiung, died A.D. 18, having lived all his life in obscurity, obtained promotion in his old age by a poem of this title.
[43] Hsieh Ling-yün (circa A.D. 400) was a famous mountain-climber who invented special mountain-climbing shoes.
[44] A quotation from one of Hsieh’s poems.
[45] I.e., “availing myself of the moonlight.”
[46] Stars of the Milky Way.
[47] The Milky Way.
[48] Chiu-ch’üan, in Kansuh.
[49] “History of Wei Dynasty” (Life of Hsü Mo): “A drunken visitor said, ‘Clear wine I account a Saint: thick wine only a Sage.’”