As galling as it might have been to be mentioned in poetry merely as a soup ingredient, such wounding words as these from Wu must have been enough to make the proud plum swear "never to bloom in Jinling [modern Nanjing] again."
若以「和羹」之典入詩，就能氣壞梅花，吳詩人這樣的中傷，簡直要叫高傲的梅花，從此「負氣不在金陵開」了。