There is a long history of viewing plum blossoms. A lot of famous poets, such as Lu Guimeng in the Tang Dynasty, Fan Chengda in the Song Dynasty, and Ni Yunlin in the Yuan Dynasty, have been here. They wandered around, enjoyed the mountain, water, plums, and trees, and wrote beautiful poems. A poemby Wen Huiming goes: "they blossom between winter and summer, they shine on the mountain and water, a look and thousands of hectares, a wonderland and no more words." Yes, the plum blossoms are more colorful because of the mountain and the water, and the mountain and water are more shining because of the plum blossoms.

Until the Qing Dynasty, the area was visited by more people looking for plum blossoms. For example, Emperor Kangxi and Qianlong were both here nine times. Dengwei Mountain is also mentioned by famous writers, such as Gong Zizhen, in his work "The Sick Plum House" and Cao Xueqin, in "A Dream in Red Mansions."

There is also a legend about the plum blossoms: there was once a farmer in the area, with a drawing by the famous painter Tang Bohu of healthy plum branches. One day, the drawing became wet after a rainstorm soaked his leaking house. The farmer was sad, but after carefully observing the drawing, found many flourishing plums on the branches. The farmer used the drawing as a diagram to trim his own trees, and plum blossoms in Dengwei have been unsurpassed since.

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