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The leaf has several names

In this essay “Shuo Mu Ye” , 林庚 Lin Geng(1910 – 2006)examines the names of the leaf in Chinese classical poetry. “Mu” 木 and “Ye”叶 both mean leaf, but in the poetic realm, the subtle differences between the two are individually and exclusively termed. The earliest works for which the distinction between the two can …