Jiang Kongyin Poem in Running Script

These two seven-character regulated verse were produced in a prolonged poetry-chanting exchange between 1939 and 1940. At least twenty-four men of letters, including Mr. Li King-hong as the core poet, made their contribution of over a hundred azalea-associated poems. Though only seventy-six still remain, it is probably the largest collective poetry work centring on a single theme recorded on paper in Hong Kong's literary history, Jiang and others moved to Hong Kong from Japanese-occupied Shanghai and Guangdong, they produced this series of poems to express their angst and nostalgia through the blossoming azaleas here in Hong Kong.