When Su Dong-po, falsely accused by conspiring enemies, was sent further and further south into exile by the Song emperor Shenzong, didn't plum flowers "take the trouble to see [him] all the way to Huangzhou"? Demoted again and sent across the Dayuling Mountains to modern-day Guangdong province, he sighed: "Who could have guessed we would meet again here?"
君不見蘇軾為讒臣所陷，被宋神宗不斷向南流放，梅花「不辭相送到黃州」；後來他又貶過了大庾嶺到今天的廣東，遂有「豈知流落復相見」之嘆。