In his first report on ROC foreign relations to this session of the Legislative Yuan, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jason Hu used the apt metaphor "10,000 flowers daring to bloom in the snow" to describe the ROC's diplomatic predicament. He said the phrase was proposed by a colleague who anonymously gave him a painting entitled Plum Blossoms in Winter.
外交部長胡志強在本屆立法院第一會期的外交施政報告中，曾針對我國外交處境與立場提出「萬花敢向雪中出」的妙喻，他說是一位外交部同仁匿名送給他的《寒梅圖》上所題。