Luoyang has the most flowers in spring, with 100 thousand households in red and green shade. Whoever teaches flowers as splendid will learn to spend as splendid. -Sima Guang's "Luoyang Watching Flowers"
This poem depicts the enthusiasm of Luoyang people to enjoy flowers in the Song Dynasty. In Luoyang, where peonies are everywhere, the varieties of peonies are delicate and charming, and the flower lovers are jostling with each other, and the residents in the city flock to see it quickly, and there is no one in the street. A hundred flowers are blooming, comparable to splendid flowers. On the contrary, people will embroider beautiful images of flowers when describing brocade.