This winter, it was freezing and snowing heavily. Wu Zetian drinks and writes poems. On a whim, she wrote a letter and ordered the flowers in the garden to bloom in the dead of winter, waiting for her to watch.
Baihua is afraid of Wu Zetian and dare not resist her will. They are in full bloom in the snow all night, and only the fairy peony, which is born fearless of power and unwilling to go against the sky, is still dormant in the dead of winter.
The next day, Wu Zetian led a group of ministers to enjoy flowers in the garden, and all the flowers were in full bloom. Wu Zetian was very happy, but she didn't see the peony blossom.
Wu Zetian was so angry that she wrote an imperial edict. She uprooted the peony and exiled it to Luoyang, but when it arrived in Luoyang, it still clung to its nature and crouched in the soil waiting for the arrival of spring. This angered Wu Zetian even more. She had all the peonies burned with torches, and after the fire, it was a scorched earth.
6. In the spring of the following year, unexpectedly, the peony sprouted, grew sturdily, grew buds, and opened more gorgeous flowers.
7. Since then, peony has enjoyed a high reputation in the whole country, and people praised it as "strengthening tendons and bones" and "burning bone peony".