After decades of storms, these old houses have been battered away - few remain.
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From Xin Qiji's Southern Song ci 永遇乐·京口北固亭怀古: 舞榭歌台，风流总被，雨打风吹去 - 'dancing pavilions and singing stages, and all that was splendid, have been beaten by rain and blown away by wind.' A lament for vanished heroism.
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Often cited in full as 风流总被雨打风吹去. Deeply melancholic - used in essays about ruin, transience, and historical forgetting.
