Baike says the last couplet is potentially a reference to another poem, whose author once famously replied to a would-be emperor who wanted him to change 14 prefectures to 40; the author responded that it's difficult to add prefectures and difficult to change a poem.
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Re: 1.13 題八咏樓 Inscribed on Tower of Eight Odes
Date: 2021-12-19 05:10 pm (UTC)