Why did Wu Zetian burn peonies, Wu Zetian and peonies

According to legend, the peony flower was originally Chang'an, one winter, Wu Zetian once wanted to visit the upper garden, so he specially announced the upper garden, "the Ming Dynasty traveled to the upper garden, and the spring was urgent." The flowers are sent overnight, don't wait for the wind to blow. At that time, it was a cold winter, and in the face of Wu Zetian's very domineering edict, the "Hundred Flowers Fairy" was ordered to hurry up.

The next day, when Wu Zetian visited the garden, he saw all the flowers in the garden, but there was no flower blooming in the only flower garden. After careful questioning, he learned that it was the peony who disobeyed the order, and Wu Zetian was angry and ordered someone to set fire to the flowers and trees, and demoted the peony from Chang'an to Luoyang. Who knows, these flower branches that have been burned into scorched wood actually bloom gorgeous flowers, and the flower fairies are impressed, so they respect the peony as "the first of a hundred flowers".

"Jiao Gu Peony" got its name from this, which is today's "Luoyang Red".

Wu Zetian has a story with peony flowers: when Wu Zetian was the emperor, he saw that the garden in winter was a withered and remnant, without a trace of life, which made people very unhappy, so she ordered that the place be full of flowers tomorrow.

Those people did not dare to disobey the divine decree, so they could only do it. The next day, the garden was full of flowers. Seeing these open flowers, Wu Zetian was very happy.

But she suddenly saw a sea of flowers but there was not even a leaf, she was a little angry, and ordered the peony to be put in Luoyang. But as soon as the flowers arrived in Luoyang, they began to take root and sprout. So Wu Zetian was very angry and ordered the peony flowers to be burned.

Although the peony was burned, its flowers are very beautiful and are still our national flower.

Wu Zetian's depreciation of peonies is fake.

Legend has it that when Wu Zetian was the emperor, one winter, when she went to the back garden, she saw that the garden was withered and slaughtered, and there was no life, so she thought, if a hundred flowers bloomed overnight, wouldn't it be beautiful. So she made a decree to the hundred flowers that the next day the whole garden must bloom.

The next day, the snow fell, but the flower fairies still did not dare to disobey the order, the colorful flowers opened in the wind and snow, only the peony, not only did not bloom, not even a green leaf did not appear. So, Wu Zetian ordered the peony to be demoted to Luoyang. But as soon as the peony arrives in Luoyang, it takes root and sprouts and blooms beautiful flowers.

The empress ordered the peonies to be burned, and although the branches were scorched black, the flowers were in full bloom even more dazzling.

Peony is respected as the king of flowers because of its awe-inspiring righteousness and arrogance that does not bow to the powerful, although the legend of Wu Zetian's depreciation of peony is only an artistic fiction, the people have expressed the great national spirit of the Chinese nation who is not afraid of the powerful and endless.