This year's spring in Luoyang is warm. In early March, the whole city is quietly green. The peach blossoms and plum blossoms are smiling, the pear blossoms are piled on the branches like broken jade, and the smoky wind is making people drunk. It is the best time of the year for outings and sightseeing, but the people of Luoyang are silent.
They are still waiting for news.
People in this city are crazy about peonies and call peach and plum blossoms "fruit flowers" with contempt. They think they are not flowers and not worth seeing. Only peonies are worthy of alarming the whole city.
When people in Luoyang say they want to see flowers, they only mean peonies. A poet once described it this way: "Luoyang people are accustomed to seeing strange flowers. The peach and plum blossoms have not yet bloomed. Only when the peonies are in full bloom can the city be filled with endless joy."