Based on the content of the article, let’s talk about the personality characteristics of the old flower seller.

Like poetry, have elegant taste, free and easy, kind, compassionate, casual, indifferent, and do not pursue material life.

The Biography of the Old Man Who Buys Flowers

I don’t know who the old man who sells flowers is. The family lives behind Qionghua Temple in Weiyang, with three thatched houses and a small pavilion next to it. In the room, there are tea bowls, alchemy stoves, sutra desks and rope beds, all of which are clean and clear from the Chu and Han Dynasties. Inside Chaimen, there is a square area of ??two acres, which is used to grow grass and flowers. I tasted five-color melons at home, and I think they were grown by Shaoping, a native of Guangling in the past. Planted peonies, roses, poppies, orioles, Luoyang, night lilies, daylilies, butterflies, night falls, money, cut spring flowers, cut autumn flowers, chrysanthemums, blue chrysanthemums, white begonias, wild goose red, *** ten Several species. In the morning, I carried flowers to the Red Bridge to sell. When I met a scholar, I gave him flowers in exchange for poems and returned. Or if you meet a layman who buys it, he will buy it several times the price, and get the money to buy it and get drunk. The rest dispersed as beggars. The people in the city laughed at her.

Notes: ① Weiyang: present-day Yangzhou City, Jiangsu Province. ② Shaoping, the Marquis of Dongling of the Qin State in ancient China. After the death of Qin, he became a commoner and made a living by growing melons. The melon tastes extremely sweet, so the world named it "Aventurine Melon" in memory of him.