In Jiang Dawei's "Peony Song", what is the deeper meaning of saying that the peony "has been through poverty", and is there any source for it?

The song is supposed to have two layers of symbolism, so let me introduce the song first.

In 1980, when the movie "Red Peony" started shooting, the director approached lyricist Qiao Yu to write the lyrics for the movie's theme song, which he did in one night. In order to make the song closer to the movie's protagonist, composers Tang Huo and Lu Yuan often went to Shanghai to watch circus performances and learn various details about the lives of folk artists. The song was drafted four times, after which Jiang Dawei was invited to record the song from Beijing to Changchun Film Studio, and this was "The Peony Song".

Peony

The most colorful among all flowers

Peony

The most spectacular in the land of fragrance

Some people say that you are delicate

How can a delicate life be so full of life

Some people say that you are rich

Who knows that you have been through a lot of poverty and cold

Peony

Peony

Who knows that you have been through a lot of poverty and cold

Peony

Peony

This is the song of "The Peony Song", which was written by Jiang Daqiang. I know that you have been poor before

Peony

The most colorful of all flowers

Peony

The most spectacular in the land of fragrance

When the earth is frozen over

You bring life to the earth

When the spring breeze blows

You bring beauty to the world

Peony

Peony

Peony

Peony

Peony

Peony

You bring beauty to the world

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You bring beauty to the world?

The first level is the spiritual significance given by the people. According to the record of "The Chronicle of Things", "When the Empress Wu ordered to visit the Hau Yuan, all the flowers bloomed, but the peony was late, so she was deported to Luoyang". Although this is a legend, there is also the pride of the peony flower in overcoming cold and not yielding to power. Liu Yuxi of the Tang Dynasty wrote a poem, "The peony in front of the garden has no character, and the lotus flower on the pond has little love. Only peony is a true national color, and it moves the capital when it blooms".

Another level: the appearance of the name "peony" marked the beginning of the cultivation history of peony. Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" of the Ming Dynasty said, "The peony is called "peony" because it bears seeds and seedlings on its roots, and its flowers are red, so it is called "dan"."

Like sunlight, also tolerate semi-shade, cold, drought, weak alkali, avoid stagnant water, fear of heat, fear of direct sunlight. Suitable for growth in loose, deep, fertile, high and dry ground, well-drained neutral sandy loam.

Temperature above 25 ℃ will make the plant is dormant. Flowering temperature for 17-20 ℃, but the flower must be 1-10 ℃ of low temperature treatment for 2-3 months before. The lowest can tolerate -30 ℃ low temperature, but the northern cold zone in winter need to take appropriate measures against cold to avoid frost damage.

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