Three friends and four gentlemen in cold years

Three friends in cold years: pine, bamboo and plum. Pine and bamboo do not wither in winter, plum blossoms are cold-resistant and open in early spring, hence the name. Pine, bamboo, plum proud wind, standing in the frost, the spirit is commendable! Pine symbolizing evergreen, bamboo symbolizing gentleman's way, and plum symbolizing purity and beauty, because it can still be evergreen in cold winter.

Four gentlemen: plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum. Its characteristics are: pride, quietness, modesty and ease. The "Four Gentlemen in Flowers" borrowed things to become a symbol of China's ambition, and it is also a common theme in object-chanting poems and artists' paintings and calligraphy.

Its cultural implication is: plum, exploring the waves and proud of snow, noble and noble; Orchids, fragrant valleys, sages in the world; Bamboo, elegant and quiet, modest and gentleman; Chrysanthemum, Shuang Ling is elegant and a hermit in the world. No one is flattering and independent. Among the four gentlemen, only plum blossom was created by the wisdom of the ancients.

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Mei Zhulanju's "Four Gentlemen" has been loved by the world for thousands of years with its elegant and indifferent quality, and has become a cultural symbol of personality. Although this is due to its own nature, it is also related to the appreciation and admiration of literati in previous dynasties.

The theme of "Four Gentlemen" has been accompanied by the development of China's flower-and-bird painting, painting plum blossom, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.

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