Meaning: Not only ordinary people are obsessed with beauties in the world, but even heroes have trouble with beauties. Give up everything and just want to wander around the world with the woman you love and return to the countryside.

The source of this sentence is "The Peony Pavilion" by Tang Xianzu. ?

Ask you what you want, ask you what you want, die under the peony flowers, and be a ghost is also romantic! You have nothing to desire, you have nothing to ask for, don’t let the lonely woman enter your account and relieve her thousands of sorrows!

This drama describes a daughter of an official family who fell in love with a scholar in her dream. She later died of grief and soon returned to the world as a soul to find her lover in reality. During this period, a man and a ghost fell in love, a series of twists and turns, and finally came back to life, and finally became united with the scholar forever.

Resurrection of the Peony Pavilion

The Yuan Dynasty song "Drunken Xishi" writes about the beautiful longing of a woman who loves her unrequitedly, while "The Peony Pavilion" tells the story of the infatuated girl who was resurrected after death and finally got her wish with her husband. The story of the dream lover getting married in reality. These two texts, without exception, express the undying emotion of a woman admiring a man until death. But now, this sentence has deviated from its original meaning and evolved into another meaning.

Today, this sentence is more common in character dialogue in film and television works. From time to time in films and television, some characters with less than decent character will say with ill intentions, "Die under the peonies. "It's cool to be a ghost" line. The "peony flower" here mostly refers to women, especially beautiful women. Generally speaking, it means: being able to win the favor of a beautiful woman, you will be satisfied even if you die for it, because that is a happy "romantic ghost"!

It is estimated that due to the subtle influence of various modern film and television works, this sentence will also be used as a wise saying in life by some "romantic people" in life, and even add the sentence "People don't... The "sister sentence" of "The Romantic Young Man" serves as an enhanced version. Investigating his mentality, it is nothing more than finding a reasonable excuse for lust.

Many people may not know that they have completely misunderstood the original meaning of the sentence "die under peonies, and you will be romantic even if you are a ghost".