The plum flower did not begin to test the ingenuity of poets until the Six Dynasties period, when from the early third to the late sixth century AD, six dynasties had their capitals at what is now Nanjing in the Yang-tze River valley, in the heart of the area where the plum grows best.
梅花開始鬥弄詩人，要到六朝以後。魏晉南北朝有六個朝代，都以今天長江流域的南京為都邑，這可是梅花恣意生長的勢力範圍。