It is necessary to know two people.

One person is Wang Rong, a famous scholar of the Western Jin Dynasty. It is rumored that Wang Rong's family has several plum trees, the varieties are excellent, and the plums produced are large and sweet, and they sell very well. Many people also want to have a plum tree like Wang Rong's family, so after buying plums, they will plant the leftover plum kernels into the ground, but what is puzzling is that the planted kernels never germinate. Later, attentive people discovered that the purchased plum kernel had a small hole that was almost negligible. Looking at the others, there are actually similar small holes, running through the entire nucleus. It turned out that Wang Rong was afraid that after his plums were bought, he would get the kernel and lose his monopoly advantage, so he used a fine nail to punch holes in the fruit to penetrate the kernel and destroy the growth vitality of the kernel. understood the reason, everyone shook their heads and had to their thumbs for Wang Rong's "good intentions".

Later, the imperial court issued an edict to recruit wise men, and someone recommended Wang Rong, but when Wang Rong was about to enter the court with one foot, someone revealed his drilling, and finally went up to heaven to hear it, and the emperor knew, and the emperor thought: "If such a narrow-minded person is allowed to be an official, it will be the sorrow of the country and the misfortune of the people!" As a result, Wang Rong's path to prosperity was cut off.

Another person is an outstanding painter of the Qing Dynasty, named Jin Dongxin. He is well-known in the world of painting, with great painting skills, calligraphy and poetry, and is also praised for his elegance. It is said that there was a literati named Wang Zheng in the same era as Jin Dongxin, who always couldn't see Jin Dongxin, as long as it was Jin Dongxin's paintings, he would slander them. Once, when Jin Dongxin was selling paintings in the market, Wang Zheng met him, squeezed through the crowd, pointed at the paintings, and almost criticized Jin Dongxin's works as worthless. Seeing this, Jin Dongxin neither cared nor annoyed, and turned around and went home after receiving the scroll. It is said that Wang Zheng has targeted Jin Dongxin many times, but Jin Dongxin is always indifferent and does not care.

Later, one day, everyone was invited by a friend to their home to enjoy writing and painting, drinking and writing poems, and the two Jin Wang were among them. When the wine was half-drunk, some people proposed to use catkins as the theme of the poem as a counterpoint. Wang Zheng deliberately competed for the first, and at the moment when everyone was still thinking, he opened his mouth and chanted a sentence "Flying catkins are red", and everyone listened to it and looked at each other in amazement. Just because the catkins in the world are white, it is common sense, but Wang Zheng said such a sentence without common sense, how can it not be shocking? Wang Zheng also suddenly woke up, speechless, and was ashamed of himself, but Jin Dongxin clapped his hands and applauded, and saw him add a sentence in front of Wang Zheng's poem: "The sunset shines back on the peach blossoms." In March, under the sunset, the catkins floating on the water naturally turn red. A wonderful pair, the peak turned around in an instant, which relieved Wang Zheng's temporary embarrassment, but it also made him even more ashamed and embarrassed under the backdrop of Jin Dongxin's generosity and kindness.