There was also a male flower spirit, He Xun. A civil servant, he was posted to Luoyang, but for the sake of the plum flowers of his homeland, he preferred to forego the promotion and return to his native prefecture of Yangzhou, by the Yangtze River.
還有一位男花神何遜，升官調往洛陽；卻為了家鄉的梅花，寧可降職回到揚州。何遜也是南朝江左人士。