What does it mean to plant flowers intentionally but not unintentionally?

This is a proverb, which comes from Augmented Sages. There are no other two sentences. The original text is "intentionally planting flowers without being born, unintentionally inserting willows into the shade."

When you plant flowers with great care, but the flowers never bloom, you just break a willow branch and insert it in the ground, but it grows into a lush willow. This tells us a truth, when you are doing something with great care, it may not succeed, but you just do something inadvertently, but it may succeed, which tells us to let nature take its course and not force it.

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Enhanced wisdom. It is called Xianwen in ancient times and Xianwen in ancient and modern times. It is a children's enlightenment bibliography compiled in Ming Dynasty. The title of the book was first seen in the drama Peony Pavilion in the Wanli period of Ming Dynasty, so it can be inferred that this book was written in the Wanli period at the latest.

"Glory and Contribution" is a collection of proverbs and aphorisms of China from ancient times to the present. Later, it was changed to this appearance after the continuous supplement of the literati in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It was called "adding glory to the text" in history, commonly known as "adding glory to the text". I haven't seen any books, except that it was revised by Confucian scholars during Tongzhi period in Qing Dynasty, which was probably the crystallization of folk creation in Qing Dynasty.