黑牡丹
福建惠安縣，有青山大王廟。廟之階下，所種皆黑牡丹。花開時數百，朵朵皆向大王神像而開；移動神像，花亦轉面向之。
Black Peonies
In Hui’an County of Fujian Province was a temple to the King of Qing Shan. Below the temple stairs, the only things planted were black peonies. When the time came for the several hundred flowers to open, each bloom faced the statue of the king; when the idol moved, the flowers turned to face it.
Yuan Mei 袁枚, Wang Yingzhi 王英志 (ed.), Yuan Mei Quanji 袁枚全集 [The Collected Works of Yuan Mei] (Nanjing: Jangsu Guji Chubanshe, 1993), Volume 4: Zi Bu Yu 子不語, juan 4, p. 67.
pottering about Taipei 游逛在台北里 