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The ninth month with tall flowering chrysanthemum (juhua) and begonia to the right.
Qianzai baiyi jiu, yisheng qingnu xiang.
It was an aeon ago when the white-robed attendant served wine to Tao Yuanming; the fragrance
of the chrysanthemum, like that of the Fairy of Frost has endured ever since.
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