Some people say that on the island of Taiwan, with its spring-like weather all year round, the lack of winter snow in the plains robs the plum of her finest hour, her chance to "bloom more splendidly the colder the weather." But even in mainland China, the home of the ancient poems, does the plum really "grow wherever there is soil"?
只道是寶島四季如春，平地冬來無雪，委屈了寒梅「越冷越開花」的勁節；卻原來古詩詞的故鄉神州，也並非「有土地就有她」？