平安京（今天的京都）的贵族一天通常包括坐在梅花树下吟诗作对，感慨如此美物却瞬息凋零，提醒了人们生命无常，这是多么的悲伤啊。
A typical day for the nobles in Heian Kyo ( now Kyoto ) might involve sitting beneath the plum blossoms and composing poems about how sad it was that something so beautiful should wither so quickly-a reminder of the transience of life .
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