to be fully replaced by floral motifs, many of them Western in origin, only with the introduction of Buddhism in the third and fourth centuries. Later, pictures of fruits and flowers became an established genre in Chinese painting, surpassing in importance their place in the West.
後來中國青出於藍，植物紋之豐富與多變化，充分反映了中國人卓越的造型感覺，尤其中國人好以「果實」為表現主題，已為西方所不及。