Where Are the People When the Birds Are Singing and the Flowers Are Falling?

"Where Are the People When Birds Cry and Flowers Fall?" Wutong Garden was originally a garden specially opened by the previous generation of the Qin family in order to observe the farming and mulberry fields at home and miss the hometown. Therefore, it was somewhat incompatible with the prosperous style of the palace in the capital. The old Jingxing Marquis Qin Xinming campaigned in the northern border in his early years. Although he was a general and became a prime minister, he fell ill. At the age of fifty, he retired and returned home to the new emperor who had been in power for half a year. The new emperor repeatedly tried to persuade him to stay, but finally gave him the title of Crown Prince and Grand Master. It's good now. I don't have to go to the border, but I can't go back to my hometown. The old man was idle at home and felt that whatever he looked at was not pleasing to his eyes. Finally, the old lady came to the palace and begged one of her old sisters who was the queen mother, and transferred a sycamore forest and several acres of wasteland at the foot of the Beishan Mountain to Jingxing Hou Mansion. The old man personally built the "Wu Tong Garden", which is half a sycamore forest and half a mulberry field. His children and grandchildren still hold titles from various places and are often not allowed to return to Beijing. Only his granddaughter is with him. So a hundred years later, the old Marquis gave Wutong Garden to this little granddaughter, who was the young lady of the Qin family. Her scientific name was Qingguan, her nickname was Yuyi, and her nickname was Feng'er. The old Marquis said that it was taken from the poem of the previous dynasty, "The green crown lifts the true fairy lightly, and the colorful feathers come to honor Ruifeng'er". This young lady, who has been "bred up as a man" since she was a child, is also the protagonist of one of the most lively marriages in Beijing this spring.