Why did Qu Yuan, Su Dongpo and others become flower gods on their birthday?

Qu Yuan, Su Dongpo and others are all flower gods, and the ancients have a special liking for flowers. Flower Festival has a long history, followed by countless legends. Among the numerous legends about flowers, flowers are represented by the moon in the middle of December in the lunar calendar, and a number of legends about spend december gods have emerged, among which these myths and legends are the most fascinating. In monthly order, there are twelve flower gods, which are divided into male twelve flower gods and female twelve flower gods. The second day of the twelfth lunar month is the birthday of Baihua, which is called the Flower Festival by the people, and there is a Flower Festival in China. These male flower gods include: Qu Yuan, the orchid god in January; Lin Bu, the plum god in February; Pi Rixiu, the peach god in March; Ouyang Xiu, the peony god in April; Su Dongpo, the pomegranate god in May; Jiang Yan, the lotus god in July; Yang Wanli, the purple flower god in August; Shi Hong, the osmanthus flower god in September; and the hibiscus flower god in October. So what are the criteria for their election as flower gods? I think there are the following points:

First, the ancient people in China's love for flowers will endow all kinds of flowers with different personalities, such as elegant orchids, aloof plum blossoms, luxurious peonies, bold peonies and so on. These are precisely the noble characters pursued by the ancients, and the person who was elected as the flower god is precisely the practitioner of these characters and the master of parallelism, so he was elected as the representative of various flowers, that is, the flower god corresponding to hundreds of flowers;

? Second, these literati who were elected as flower gods wrote poems about flowers. They told stories from ancient times to modern times, making it easier for ancient ancestors to accept them as flower gods.

? Third, at the beginning of a legend, there must be celebrities as carriers, such as Qu Yuan and the great poet Su Shi. , are household names. Only when they can make these ideas accepted can the legend be passed down to this day.