Lín Bū yíbèizi méiyǒu jiéhūn, zhòng méi yǎng hè, rénmen shuō tā " méiqī-hèzǐ ".
Lin Bu never married; he grew plum trees and kept cranes, and people said plums were his wife and cranes his children.
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His couplet on plum blossom, 疏影横斜水清浅，暗香浮动月黄昏, 'sparse shadows slant across clear shallow water; a hidden fragrance drifts in the moonlit dusk', became the standard image of the flower. 姜夔 named two ci tunes after it.
