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This is a story from Strange Tales from Make-Do Studio. Chang Dayong of Luoyang loved peonies very much. He went to Caozhou when he learned that the peonies there were the best of all. He resided in a big garden to wait for the peonies to blossom. When the peonies were budding and redy to blossom， he was already broke， so he pawned all his valuables to wait to see the peonies blossom. One day， Dayong saw a beautiful girl and they fell in love at first sight. The girl followed Dayong to Luoyang and married him. She was Gejin. Later， her younger sister， Yuban， married to Daqi， Dayong's younger brother. One year alter， both of them gave birth to boys. The sisters never talked about their family background. When asked time and again about their father's family， they said，"His family name is Wei and his mother was named Lady Cao." Dayong felt strange at the word because there was no Wei family in Caozhou and moreover， how could such a distinguished family not send people out to find their missing daughters. With these questions in mind， Dayong went to Caozhou again to see the owner of the big garden. He asked the owner whether there was a Lady Cao in the vicinity. The owner took him to a big peony plant and said， "This is Lady Cao."At the work， Dayong began to realize that his wife and her sister were peony flower goddesses. When he returned home， Gejin said to him， "Three years ago， when I saw you loved peonies so much that I was noved and turned into a girl to marry you. Now that you know everything， I have to go."Saying this， she and Yuban， putting the children on the ground， disasppeared. A few days later， two peony plants grew out of the place where the two boys had been put. They bore plate-size beautiful flowers， one in purple and the other in white. That is how the two famous peonies， Purple Gejin and White Yuban took their names.
《聊齋志異》中的故事。洛陽(yáng)常大用酷愛(ài)牡丹。聽(tīng)說(shuō)曹州牡丹天下第一，他就跑到曹州，住在一個(gè)大花園內(nèi)，天天等著牡丹開(kāi)放。待牡丹含苞欲放時(shí)，大用已身無(wú)分文了，他將值錢(qián)的東西和衣服典賣，仍等著看花。一天，大用碰到一艷麗女子，二人一見(jiàn)鐘情，那女子跟著大用回到洛陽(yáng)，嫁給大用，她就是葛巾。后來(lái)，葛巾又把妹妹玉版嫁給了大用弟弟大器。一年后各生一子。二位女郎從不說(shuō)自己的身世，在大用兄弟再三追問(wèn)下她們才說(shuō)：自己姓魏，母親被封為曹夫人。大用聽(tīng)了更是奇怪。一是曹州沒(méi)有魏姓，二是這樣大的家族丟兩個(gè)女兒怎么沒(méi)人找。帶著這兩個(gè)謎，大用又來(lái)到曹州，找到那座花園的主人，問(wèn)起當(dāng)?shù)乜捎胁芊蛉?。主人領(lǐng)他到一株大牡丹前說(shuō)：“這就是曹夫人。”大用這才知道自己的妻子和弟妹都是牡丹花神變的。大用回到家后，葛巾告之：“三年前，看到你對(duì)牡丹情深，很感動(dòng)，便變?yōu)榕蛹弈?，現(xiàn)在你知道真情，我要走了。” 說(shuō)完和玉版把孩子往地上一放，就無(wú)影無(wú)蹤了。幾天后，在放兒子的地方長(zhǎng)出兩株牡丹，一紫一白，花朵像盤(pán)子大，花色艷麗。后人將這兩種名花叫“葛巾紫”、 “玉版白”。
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