The source of this sentence is Tang Xianzu's Peony Pavilion. ?
Ask what you want, ask what you want, peony dies, and being a ghost is romantic! You don't want anything, you don't want anything, don't let lonely women enter an account to solve thousands of worries!
This drama describes an official's daughter who fell in love with a scholar in her dream, then died of injury, and soon turned into a soul and returned to the world to find a true lover. During this period, people and ghosts fell in love, and after several twists and turns, they finally came back to life and finally became one with the scholar.
The story of the resurrection of peony pavilion
"Drunken Beauty" in Yuan Dynasty is a beautiful dream of a girl with unrequited love, while "Peony Pavilion" is a story of a girl with unrequited love resurrecting after her death and finally combining her wish with her dream lover in reality. Without exception, these two words express women's admiration for men until they die. But now, this sentence has deviated from the original intention and evolved into another meaning.
Today, this sentence is more common in the role dialogue of film and television works. From time to time, some people who are not decent will come up with a line that "peony flowers die, and ghosts are also romantic." "Peony flower" refers to women, especially beautiful women. Generally speaking, you are satisfied to get the favor of a beautiful woman, even if you die for it, because she is a happy "romantic ghost"!
It is estimated that due to the subtle influence of various modern film and television works, this sentence will be regarded as life wisdom by some "romantic people" in life, and even a "sister sentence" of "people don't waste their youth" will be added as an enhanced version. Examining his mentality is nothing more than finding a reasonable excuse for lewdness.
Many people may not know it, but they completely misinterpreted the original meaning of the sentence "peony flowers die, ghosts are also romantic."