Medieval China Gothic
Public Domain In my search for thirst-waters , I came across an 18th century reference to the Yuan dynasty planting lemon trees and using them for thirst-waters. I haven't been able to track down a specific historical provenance for that information, but I did find the poem they additionally cite about lemons (good-for-"meng" fruits). It's sort of helpful, and I suspect it's an oblique reference to bees making honey. Well, and also to drunkenness. This is a Chinese poem, after all, and if they're not about at least one of the moon, autumn, or drunkenness, they're probably not worth much. That said, I think most of the lines read independently like " Medieval China Gothic " This poem appears in First Selection of Yuan Poems compiled in the Siku Quanshu, published 1784, but ascribed to Gu Sili, 1669-1722. This poem also appears in the Ming dynasty collection The Stone Granary Collection of Poems from the Ages by Cao Xuequan, 1574-16