中国人爱松、爱菊、爱竹、爱兰,而爱梅犹甚。松耐寒而无花,竹青翠而无香,菊经霜而不受雪,兰多香而少坚。唯梅有色有味,经霜耐寒,寿比松柏,香胜幽兰。而梅中之极品犹数腊梅。淮安周恩来故居处有其手植腊梅一株,现已逾百年,枝叶满院,高比屋肩。其一树六股,虬劲曲折,上下翻飞,如绳缠龙盘。每当盛夏之时,身探墙外,四壁难禁勃勃生机;浓阴覆地,满院都是盈盈情意。晨风轻摇,阔叶向天奏有声之曲;晚月初上,梅 Chinese people love loose, love chrysanthemum, love bamboo, love blue, and love Mei Ju even. Cold hardy without flowers, green bamboo without incense, chrysanthemum frost without snow, blue and more fragrant and less hard. Only plum colored taste, frost cold, life than pine and cypress, orchid wins orchids. The best in the plum is still many plum. Huai’an Zhou Enlai former residence has its hands planted a plant, now more than a century, branches and leaves full house, high than the shoulder. One of the trees six shares, Jin twists and turns, flying up and down, such as roving Longpan. Whenever midsummer, body scout outside walls are inevitably boundless vitality; thick shade, full house are Yingyingqingyi. Morning breeze shaking, broad leaves to the sound of the song of the day; late at night, plum