Only the true national color of peony is Liu Yuxi's poem, and the source "Appreciating Peony" is a poem by Liu Yuxi, a writer in the Tang Dynasty.
The full text is as follows:
The peony in front of the courtyard is enchanting and gorgeous but lacking in bones, and the lotus in the pool is elegant, clean and boring. Only the peony is the real beauty, which attracted countless people to appreciate at the flowering stage and alarmed the whole Chang 'an City.
The translation is as follows:
The peony flowers in the yard are gorgeous, but the style is not high; The lotus on the surface of the pool is bright and clean, but it lacks enthusiasm. Only the peony flower is the real national color and the most beautiful flower. When the flowers bloom, their grand occasion sensationalized the whole capital.
About the author:
Liu Yuxi (772-842), a writer and philosopher in the Tang Dynasty, was born in Luoyang. He called himself a "Luoyang native" and said that he was born in Zhongshan. The first one is Zhongshan, Wang Jing and Liu Sheng. Known as the "poet".
Liu Yuxi was a scholar in the ninth year of Zhenyuan (793). At the beginning, he was a clerk in Du You's shogunate and an envoy in Huainan, and was highly valued by Du You. Later, he entered the DPRK from Du You, supervising the empire. At the end of Zhenyuan, he made friends with Liu Zongyuan, Han Ye and formed a political group headed by Wang.
Later, he successively served as Sima Langzhou, Secretariat of Lianzhou, Secretariat of Kuizhou, Secretariat of Hezhou, Doctor of Host and Guest, Minister of Rites, and Secretariat of Suzhou. In Huichang, we will check the history of the Ministry of Justice. He died at the age of 70 and gave it to the Minister of Housing. Liu Yuxi's poems and essays are excellent, and he is widely read. He is called "Liu Liu" with Liu Zongyuan, "Three Masters" with Wei and Bai Juyi, and "Bai Liu" with Bai Juyi.
Three philosophical works, The Theory of Heaven, discuss the materiality of heaven and analyze the origin of the theory of destiny, which is materialistic. There are works of Liu Mengde and Liu Binke.