Keywords: Plum wife and crane son, never married, aloof and pure.
These words refer to Lin Bu, a famous reclusive poet in the early Northern Song Dynasty. He may not be well-known, but he is a commoner, but when he mentions "the sparse shadows are slanting across the clear and shallow water, the faint fragrance floats in the moonlight at dusk." This is the eternal poem about plum blossoms.
This man would never be an official, never marry, and had no children, but he liked to plant plum trees and raise cranes. He said that he "took plum trees as his wife and cranes as his sons," and was known as "Plum Blossom Wife and Crane Son." Now that he is old, he has his own tomb next to the hut, and writes a poem: "The green hills on the lake are opposite to the hut, and the bamboos in front of the tomb are sparse. Maoling will ask for the manuscript in the future, and I am still glad that there was no Zen book." The poem was discarded and never retained. It is rare for the Song Dynasty to have a free and easy figure like a celebrity in the Wei and Jin Dynasties.
However, such a person, living alone in a lonely mountain all his life, has never felt lonely?
Looking at his poems, it seems that he has never had such an emotion. It seems that the company of plum blossoms is enough! The plum blossoms in the Fanghe Pavilion of Gushan have lasted for thousands of years. Is it true that plum trees have spirituality?
So I boldly read about the story of Lin Junfu and his plum blossom elves.