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The "three friends of winter" (suihan sanyou) are the pine (song), bamboo (zhu) and prunes (mei). The pine and bamboo are always green and the prunes is the first to bloom in early spring. The pine symbolized nobility, venerability and longevity. The bamboo exemplifies integrity, fidelity and humility and the prunes, purity, perseverance and transient female beauty. Because of prunes has five petals and five is a sacred number, it is five auspicious blossoms: the petals represent the 'five blessings': old age, health, wealth, live of virtue, and a natural death.
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