From the fate and character of plum blossom, we can see the ups and downs of the ancient people's official career and read out their pure spiritual world like plum blossom. There were many people who liked plum blossoms in ancient times, and many literati liked a plum flower as a poem.
Early people's understanding of plum blossom was mainly limited to its practicality. For example, there is a saying in the literature of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, "If you make a harmonious soup, you will only have salty and sour plums." In the Book of Songs in the Spring and Autumn Period, there is a description of "there are beautiful flowers in the mountains, waiting for plum blossoms". People call plum blossoms "beautiful flowers", which reflects their appreciation attitude towards plum blossoms. "Plum Blossom Fall" is a song of Qing Dynasty, which begins to describe "Plum Blossom Fall, Liuhua Scattered with the Wind. Sigh that I am a spring year, and no one wants to call ",sigh that spring is fleeting.
After entering the Northern and Southern Dynasties, there was a story about Princess Shouyang's "Plum Blossom Makeup", and Yongmei's famous phrase "Folding Plum Blossoms for Friends in Spring" was given to the leader. Tian Quan in the south of the Yangtze River, chatting for a spring. "Before the Tang Dynasty, the number of Yongmei's poems was small, but it can be seen that people have risen from material practicality to spiritual feelings. During the Tang and Five Dynasties, due to the natural climate and the development of social stability and people's livelihood at that time, the cultivation techniques of plum blossoms have developed greatly. During this period, plum planting activities in Yongmei gradually warmed up, and Yongmei's works, from emperors and famous officials to ordinary people in cloth clothes, emerged in large numbers. For example, Li Shimin, king of the Tang Dynasty, wrote Yongmei's quatrains "Send away the cold snow and welcome the new year", and a large number of Yongmei poets, such as Du Fu, Bai Juyi, Du Mu and Li Shangyin, wrote Yongmei's quatrains with different mentality and aesthetics.
During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the development of plum blossom culture entered a prosperous period. Culturally, Shi Mei, Mei Wen, Shu Mei, Meihua, etc. came out one after another, and their works were the highest in all previous dynasties. At this time, Meihua also established its position as the head of the group. Mei's poems were numerous in the Song Dynasty, and Ying Sui, written by Fang Hui in the late Song Dynasty, classified "plum blossom" as a category. Mei Ci is also many excellent works. Famous artists, such as Lin Bu (He Jing) in the Northern Song Dynasty, lived in seclusion in the lonely mountain of Hangzhou, growing plums and setting cranes free, so-called Mei's wife, cranes. There are many plum blossom poems, and the poem "The shadow is shallow and the fragrance floats at dusk" ("Xiaomei in the Mountain Garden") is even more vivid. Other poets, such as Su Shi, Qin Guan and Wang Anshi in the Northern Song Dynasty, Lu You, Chen Liang and Fan Chengda in the Southern Song Dynasty, have been handed down from generation to generation.
Due to the elegance of literati, the rise of private gardens has been promoted, and plum gardens have been built everywhere. Plum trees, Meixi, Hu Mei, Meitai and Mei Ting have been planted everywhere, making it a social fashion to like, grow and enjoy plum. There are more and more plum blossom paintings, and a number of people who are good at painting plum blossoms have emerged, such as Zhong Ren, Yang Wuxia, and Zhao, the elder of Heshi Temple. There are more than 4,700 literary works with plum blossom as the theme in Song Ci, and there are more than 1 120 Yongmei Ci in Song Ci.
The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the development period of plum blossom culture, and Yongmei's style increased in the Ming Dynasty. Yang Shen, Jiao Hong, Gao Qi and Tang Yin all have Yongmei's poems. Xú Zhēng, Yao Lai, Liu Ji, etc. , there are plum blossoms. On the other hand, books, essays, poems, paintings and other cultural aspects have also developed and improved. For example, Yongmei's poetry creation, Ming and Qing dynasties are also talented people. On the basis of inheriting predecessors, a group of poets such as Xu Wei, Gao Qi, Fang Xiaoru and Li have made unique innovative achievements in artistic conception, connotation and aesthetic concept of poetry. In painting creation, "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou", especially Jin Nong and Li, constructed the peak of plum blossom painting.