I'd rather die on a branch with incense in my arms. In Empresses Entering the Palace, this line is about Shen Meizhuang. Shen Meizhuang is a very special woman in this movie. She is elegant and noble, with integrity. The phrase "it is better to hold incense in the branches and die than to blow it in the north wind" won the applause of many people.

In this film, Shen Meizhuang is lonely because of arrogance and rebellious because of hopelessness. All Shen Meizhuang's actions are telling us one thing. She longs for love, but she is always alone. She just applies the sentence "I would rather leave fragrance on the branches than be arrogant".

I would rather die in the story of Zhen Huan.

In Empresses in the Palace, Shen Meizhuang wore a dress with a chrysanthemum pattern for the first time, which was very beautiful. Because she was sensible and elegant in the draft, she left a good impression on the emperor and the queen mother. Thus, eyebrow zhuang, who was in bed for the first time, won the favor of the emperor. Knowing that she likes chrysanthemums, she sent them to Meizhuang Palace in pots and pans, and ordered people to change the "Chang Xi Hall" where eyebrow zhuang lived into "Ju Cun Hall". When asked why he likes chrysanthemums so much, eyebrow zhuang quoted the poem "It is better to hold incense on the branches than to blow the north wind".