There is no better gift in Jiangnan, and flowers will send spring.
-Southern and Northern Dynasties: Lu Kai wrote poems for Ye Fan.
Miss Mei wants to go to Kau Xizhou and break plum blossoms on the north bank of the Yangtze River.
Thin clothes are as red as apricots and hair as black as crows.
-Southern and Northern Dynasties: Excerpts from the anonymous Xizhou Song.
Parting thoughts, playing together, and holding on to each other.
Climb the south tree alone and send the north wind far away.
Lin Xi-chun is early, but bloom is late.
I also smell plum blossoms, and there are many poems in Dihua.
-Tang Dynasty: Zhang Jiuling's "Folding Plums and Sending Kundi"