The famous epigrams about crying include Du Fu's poems: where petals have been shed like tears, and lonely birds have sung their grief, and Bai Juyi's < Pipa > There are also many poems describing crying, and a few excerpts have been made for everyone: hummed, whispered-and then were intermingled, and sometimes in the deep of night she would dream of her triumphs, like a pouring of large and small pearls into a plate of jade, although the tunes were different from those she had played before, and be wakened from her dreams by the scalding of her tears and the feasters, all listening, covered their faces. But who of them all was crying the most?, this Jiujiang official. My blue sleeve was wet.