The Peacock Flies Southeast is first found in New Songs from a Jade Terrace.
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history
徐陵 (507–583) compiled its ten scrolls at the Liang court, probably in the 530s or 540s, choosing poems on love and on women from the Han to his own day. Many are in the ornate 宫体诗 'palace style' of the Liang crown prince's circle.
culture
It is the earliest source for the long ballad 孔雀东南飞, which it titles a poem written for the wife of 焦仲卿, and it also holds the 白头吟 later credited to 卓文君.
