Urgent need: Idioms and allusions containing traditional cultural images such as plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, lotus, willow, pine and cypress, banana, phoenix tree, purple swallow, swan goose,

Urgent need: Idioms and allusions containing traditional cultural images such as plum, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum, lotus, willow, pine and cypress, banana, phoenix tree, purple swallow, swan goose, cuckoo and lost ape. Evergreen pine and cypress is a praise for people's longevity.

The plane tree is half dead: a metaphor for losing a spouse. Do you remember the peacock flying southeast? They and the trees buried underground are phoenix trees.

Hongyan's cry of sorrow: sorrow. Metaphor displaced victims live a miserable life.

Cuckoo cries blood. Legend has it that cuckoos wail day and night until blood flows out. Often used to describe extreme sadness.

Apes cry and cranes mourn.