林逋对梅花和仙鹤的痴迷有时也让友人不解。友人问他：“众花之中你为什么偏爱梅花？”

林逋回答道：“梅花向来是文人雅士的。因为梅花临寒独开，不畏风欺雪压，所以文人大多认为梅花有铮铮傲骨。”

His fascination with plum blossoms and cranes bewildered his friends. “Why plum blossoms, of all flowers?” they’d ask.

 “Because they are always the favorite of well-cultivated intellectuals and literati,” he replied. “Plum blossoms are considered proudly defiant, for they alone flourish during the coldest of days, unyielding to the chilly gusts or the falling snow.”

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