China traditional literati regard plum blossom as a flower among flowers?

One of the four gentlemen in flowers, also refers to a hermit.

Plum blossom, orchid, bamboo, chrysanthemum. They are called "Four Gentlemen in Flowers" and "Four Gentlemen". The characteristics are: pride, quietness, firmness and lightness. Plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum have become the symbols of China people's feelings about things, and they are also the most common themes in poems about objects and literati paintings, which are rooted in their yearning for this aesthetic personality realm. * * * The same feature is self-improvement. Tsinghua stays out of it and doesn't kiss up.