Disdain for the world and for glamour Whereas the Tang emperor bestowed daffodils on his ladies, after the Song the flowers came to be exchanged as gifts between gentleman literati.
不愛人間富貴妝唐明皇以水仙賜美人，宋代以降，則多在文人間互贈凌波雅客，詩賦中經常可見這類題材。