The Southern Dynasties poet Wu Jun (469-520) also wrote: "The plum is promiscuous by nature, and all look down on her. So she flowers among the frost, to catch the eye of the well-to-do."
南朝詩人吳均更有「梅性本輕蕩，世人相凌賤，故作負霜花，欲使羅綺見」之說。