What does Cheng Zheng's primitive bamboo element mean to Mei Qing?

Cheng Zheng's primitive bamboo element, Xinyi, means to Mei Qing that she likes the elegance of bamboo and appreciates the tall plum blossoms. This sentence comes from calligrapher Yi Bingshou's Five Words of Official History. It expresses that the author likes the elegance of bamboo and appreciates the height of plum blossoms. Yi Bingshou, ancestor, Mo Qing, later Mo 'an. He was a calligrapher in the Qing Dynasty and a native of Ninghua County, Tingzhou Prefecture, Fujian Province, so his old friend was also called Yiting Prefecture.