Peony is considered a beautiful country. Who wrote it?

Liu Yuxi's "Peony Appreciation" says: "The peony demon in front of the court is unqualified, and the pool is full of lotus and little affection. Only peony is the real national color, and capital moves when flowers bloom. " Because of the last two sentences, we will regard Liu Yuxi as the first bosom friend of "national color and fragrance" peony flower.

In fact, this idiom can be found in Li Jun's notebook "Song Window Miscellanies" in the Tang Dynasty. According to legend, at the end of spring, the emperor and his concubines enjoyed peony flowers in the inner hall of the court. The emperor is a man of culture. He usually likes poetry and painting. Seeing that peony is so bright and lovely, he asked Cheng Xiuji, a painter next to him, "Now there are peony flowers everywhere in Beijing. It is said that there are many peony poems written by literati. Which is the best? "

Cheng Xiu is good at painting, and poetry and painting are interlinked. Naturally, he is also a smart man. He replied to the emperor: "I once heard that officials and officials were singing and enjoying a peony poem, which was written by China calligrapher Li Zhengfeng. I remember two of them saying,' the national color is full of wine, and the clothes are dyed at night.' After listening to this, the emperor also felt that the writing was well written and really fit the temperament of peony flowers. When he admired it, he looked up at his concubine and said with a smile, "If she drinks a glass of Zijin wine in front of the toilet mirror, it will be more like Li's poem! "In the future, others will mention Peony's" The Beauty of the Country ".Everyone knows that the source is the poem of Li Zhengfeng, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, although it is a pity that the whole poem no longer exists.