| 金天翮 | jīn tiān hé | Jin Tianhe (1874-1947), late Qing poet and novelist, author of Flower in the sea of evil 孽海花 |
| 1 | Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you. | |
| 2 | " Such as the Southern Shen Yue, "Xi Wen Night Crane OK": "Nine negative winter frost, the six-he did not fly either. | |
| 3 | This stage produced a tuft of barbs fused to the hollow cylinder, or calamus . | |
| 4 | Eventually, dense rows of interlocking barbs formed a flat surface: the basic blueprint of the so-called pennaceous feathers of modern birds. | |
| 5 | At the base of the feather, the rachis expands to form the hollow tubular calamus, or quill, which inserts into a follicle in the skin. |