Shiy De-jinn once wrote, "Youth appears only once in one's life. However, through the practice of their art, artists can recreate that youthful period several times in their lives and thus come into contact with an endless spring."

Shiy De-jinn liked to paint flowers as a way of enjoying the abundance of youth. In this ink and color painting of the Chinese flowering crabapple, strong calligraphic strokes are revealed in the straightness of its stems and the lushness of its leaves. As one of famous flowers of China, Chinese flowering crabapples are a famous treasure of Sichuan, which is celebrated in the saying, "In the vast land of Sichuan, the Chinese flowering crabapples are singular in their beauty." Shiy De-jinn, himself from Sichuan, perhaps tried to express his affection for his birthplace by painting these famous flowers.