The epitaph on the tomb at Meihualing (Plum Flower Ridge) to the north of Yangzhou of Shi Kefa, a ministerwho survived the fall of the Ming dynasty, reads: "The countless plum flowers are the tears of a defeated nation, the city of two moons the heart of a former minister."
明末遺臣史可法在揚州北郊梅花嶺的墓地碑聯，於是有：「萬點梅花亡國淚，二分明月故臣心」的隱喻。