| 1 | Brother chicken woman each west east. | |
| 2 | He is lodging near the Qinhuai river, and at night overhears two drowned ghosts conversing . | |
| 3 | It truthfully reveals the poet's blight for his banishing trip with his forlorn and lonely feeling by capturing the atmosphere of a courier-stop on a cold night. | |
| 4 | Landscape carries Ma Dai's parting pain, drifting depression and lonely feeling. It is clearly branded on the sentimental stamp of the late Tang Dynasty. | |
| 5 | The houses in this village were described by William Cobbett in 1830 on his Rural Rides as having "a good deal of show and finery" where "everything looks like gentility". |