Zhou Shihou’s "Luoyang Flowers and Trees" written during the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty (1078-1085) divided flowers into six categories: miscellaneous flowers, fruit flowers, thorn flowers, grass flowers, water flowers, and vine flowers. In its "Eighty-two Miscellaneous Flowers", it is recorded that "sea pomegranate, camellia (blooms in the twelfth lunar month), late camellia (blooms in cold food), pink camellia, white camellia"; in "Thirty-seven Thorny Flowers" it is recorded that "tea Plum, Thousand-leaf Camellia". This article is the earliest record of pink camellia, but it does not mention the variety.
The famous poem about pink camellia includes "The beauty first wakes up from sleep, smiling through the window screen" in "Lianque Pink Camellia" by Lu Zhi of the Ming Dynasty. When the beauty woke up, her rosy smile with a smile on her face revealed a hazy pink color through the window screen, which really brought the pink camellia to life. There is also a line in "Nanxiangzi: Inscribed on Broken Branches of Pink Camellia" by Qu You of the Ming Dynasty: "I am proud of my good color and appearance at the end of the year. The remaining powder and fat are all over my face." There was a woman who felt sorry for her appearance in the evening and looked in the mirror. If you look closely, you will see that there is still pink makeup with "remaining powder and fat" all over her face. The poet does not write about the bright red rouge on the woman's face, but uses the "remaining powder and residual fat" on the woman's face to describe the pink color of camellia. It is really unique.