The most popular version of Luoyang Peony is related to Empress Wu Zetian. According to legend, after Wu Meiniang sat on the emperor, his heart was very comfortable. In the cold winter of one year, he went to the back garden to play and saw dead branches swaying and weeds overgrown. So she was very angry and wrote a poem: come to the DPRK to swim to the garden and report the spring knowledge quickly. Flowers bloom overnight, don't wait for the breeze to blow. The consequences of the female emperor's anger were so serious that even the flower gods were afraid, so all the peaches, plums, begonia and lilacs in the garden bloomed overnight. Only the peony has the most personality, and resolutely refuses to violate nature. The queen was furious and expelled all the peonies from Chang 'an and relegated them to Luoyang. So Luoyang every cloud has a silver lining.
Peony flowers are beautiful, and stories and legends about peony are also beautiful. There is the legend of the peony flower god, the story of Feng Menglong's meeting a fairy in the garden at night, and the touching love of Ge Jin in Liaozhai. Even Yang Yuhuan, a famous queen, used peony to attract the attention of the emperor. According to legend, peony mostly appears in the form of flower demon, but it gives people not fear, but praise and pursuit of beautiful things.