During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a favorite concubine "Mrs. Ju", who could sing and dance well and was named "Ju Tou". Later, because he was not favored, he said that he was ill and went back to the inner palace to rest. Eunuch Chen Yuan hired her with a large sum of money to amuse himself. One day, Emperor Jiajing wanted to watch a song and dance performance impromptu. Someone said, "It must be Mrs. Ju." So Mrs. Ju was invited into the palace again. After a song and dance, Mrs. Ju was once again favored by the emperor, and Chen Yuan was extremely sad about it. Later, someone wrote a poem "Chrysanthemum Flowers New" for Chen Yuan. Chen Yuan was very happy after listening to it and gave it to Tian Zhai with brocade and silks.
When Lu Pingquan, a famous Confucian scholar, entered the official career in the late Ming Dynasty, he and his colleagues went to see Prime Minister Yan Song, and all the officials rushed forward to flatter him. Lu Pingquan saw many pots of chrysanthemums on display in the court and said coldly, "Gentlemen, take it easy, don't press Tao Yuanming!" The language is ironic and wonderful, and the contestants are ashamed after listening to it.
Pu Songling, a writer in Qing Dynasty, described a story about chrysanthemum in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio. There was a man named Ma Zicai, who was good at chrysanthemums and came to Nanjing for a different species. On the way, he made a friend named Tao, who knew chrysanthemum very well ... Later, Ma Zi married Tao's sister. One day, Tao drank too much wine, fell drunk on the ground, turned into a big chrysanthemum, and changed back to human form the next day. Soon, Tao got drunk for the second time and turned into a chrysanthemum, but this time it never changed back ... My sister cried bitterly and pinched its roots back for cultivation. In autumn, bloom was pink, with a strong bouquet. Later, people nicknamed this chrysanthemum "drunken chrysanthemum".