Compared with the white-flowered jiangmei (" Yangtze River ") variety of black plum, with its restrained" cool stamens and white cloak tinged with green, "the peach flower, it seems, is a voluptuous young temptress, and the almond blossom gaudily overdressed. But what of the green sepals and red blossom of the red-flowered plum?
既然桃為夭客、杏為豔客，那麼除了身披「冷蕊白青袍」的江梅，紅梅綠萼又算小人還是君子？