Just as peach trees full of ripe peaches intertwined amongst the leafy bough, be an allegory for love: hot blooded young men amongst the company of young ladies in the prime of their youth, would they not have amorous thoughts in spring? There is one such incident, described in the poem "The Fair Youth". In the Tang Dynasty, the poet Meng Qi narrated in his "Treatise on Current Affairs" the following story: During the Qing Ming Festival, the poet Qu Hu once went to the river to get some water, and saw a fair maiden leaning against a peach tree. He was awestruck by her beauty and fell in love at first sight. Although their eyes briefly met, Qu Hu decided to avert her gaze. Next year's Qing Ming, the scene of the blossoming peach trees aroused his feelings anew, and decided to head back to the same place to look for the girl. Unfortunately for him, the girl was not there. Left alone in the peach garden, he lamented his misfortune by writing a poem, and left it there when he left. A number of days passed, Qu Hu again passed by the same place, and heard someone crying softly. He enquired about the matter with an old man there. The old man replied:" Since last spring, my daughter had been feeling dispirited and listless. Upon seeing a poem left behind by someone, (she became sick with love and cried) vowing to starve herself to death."

Qu Hu realised that the girl must have fell in love with him as well. He paid a visit to the girl, tears streaming down his face. His heartfelt sorrow touched the girl, and she recovered (I think recovered sufficiently enough for the both of them to confess their love to each other. This section is a bit hard to translate directly). In his poem (titled "The Fair Youth"):" At the same time last year, when I saw you under the plum blossoms, I was red with bashfulness. My embarrassment has since gone, carried away by the spring breeze that greeted the plum blossoms." Since then, these allegories for peaches became synonymous with the love between youths. (Something like that....)

WTF!?