The first of the three:
长安回望绣成堆，
山顶千门次第开。
一骑红尘妃子笑，
无人知是荔枝来。 'Looking back at Chang'an, the hills lie heaped like embroidery; on the summit a thousand gates open one after another. A single rider in a cloud of red dust, and the consort smiles; no one knows it is lychees arriving.' Huaqing Palace, the hot-spring palace below Mount Li east of Chang'an, was where
唐玄宗 spent his winters with
杨贵妃.
