In ancient China, royal aristocrats, literati and ordinary people all liked to keep cats, and people of different classes gave cats different colors. Monks and Dade in the temple also keep cats, recite scriptures and talk about cats, and often use cats as Zen machines to explain profound Buddhism, which makes cats have unusual Zen and beauty. Buddhism and cats are unique parts in the history of Chinese cat culture.
After the Tang and Song Dynasties, peony flowers were also planted in temples, which can be seen from the poems of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Zhuo Yingying of the Tang Dynasty visited Guanfu Temple, which is located in Yizhou, Sichuan, now Chengdu. Liu Jian looked at the peony in Guangfu Temple again. Last year, he saw peony flowers and butterflies welcoming people with rosy clouds, depicting the peony blooming in Guangfu Temple, Rong County, Sichuan Province. Bai Juyi's "Peony Flowers in Ximing Temple" recalls the title of the year before Yuan Dynasty, and now sees flowers. One is a Taoist and the other is a peony, which is the peony memory of Ximing Temple in Chang 'an. In the Song Dynasty, it was very common to plant and watch peonies in temples, and it became a fashion to sing peonies with Buddhist interest. Gu Yin Temple, where Zen master Cong Yun lived in the Song Dynasty, is also famous for peony. In the Northern Song Dynasty, Peng had a poem praise valley with many peonies hidden in it. One gave everything, and everything was taken one by one. Love you to see flowers, and realize that you are constantly robbed by sand. Who knows, there are only butterflies among the flowers. In the Song Dynasty, poets and monks also sang peony poems, praised peony and expressed Zen. For example, in the poems of Northern Song Dynasty monk Shou Ranguan Peony, the root of pure old Zen is that this illusion talks about vacuum. Su Tong decided not to remember the past of Nanquan when he had a solution, but he said it like a dream without saying anything. In the Song Dynasty, peonies and civets were planted in temples. Flower language and cat interest set each other off into a picture. Borrowing peony flowers from Master Yun will sleep under the cat and explain the abstruse Buddhist Zen machine.