plum blossom, also named “five lucky flower” and “three friends in the winter” with pine and bamboo. It means happy, longevity, smooth and peace. It doesn’t have supreme elegance as peony nor colorful and fragrant as rose. The beauty of flowers is from all of them as a team, never stay alone that makes everybody feel so warm in deep winter and early spring when you saw them. Everybody respects this plant as chinese elite because it never scared frigid frost and snow, always spread its fragrance in winter. It’s one of the most admiring plants in china from ancient china till now.“无意苦争春，一任群芳妒，零落黄泥辗作尘，只有香如故。”(from poet Lu You, at Song dynasty) “it never wanna make any plants jealous, so just blossom alone in cold winter not with them in spring, it still fragrant after it falling down on the road even wagon run over it makes it stuck in the mud.” Plum is so lonely, only this plant could show literator’s narcissist perfectly.“墙角数枝梅，凌寒独自开。遥知不是雪，为有暗香来。”(from poet Wang AnShi, Song dynasty.) “Several branches of plum blossom stay in a corner alone in cold weather . We know it’s not snow from a faraway place because there’s aroma waft to us. Everybody could smell the light aroma from plum in the snow. “梅花香自苦寒来” aroma of plum blossom comes from cold and frigid frost and snow.
