She dawdles, not daring to move closer, / Afraid he might compare her with leftover peach. An example of the latter term appears in a 6th-century poem by Liu Xiaozhuo:
Traditional terms for homosexuality included " the passion of the cut sleeve" ( Chinese: 斷袖之癖 pinyin: duànxiù zhī pǐ), and "the divided peach" ( Chinese: 分桃 pinyin: fēntáo).