Looking again at Shen Zhou's masterpiece, it too seems to have climbed to the far-off palace of the moon, for with the influence of the Chang E legend and the ancient allusion to plucking a sprig of osmanthus, the flowers which the poetess saw as "pale, delicate yellow" have been upgraded to "a tree covered in golden millet."
回頭來看大學者沈周的墨寶，不也遠攀月宮，兼收嫦娥神話、折桂舊典，連女詞人看來「暗淡輕黃」的桂花，都升值成了「一樹黃金粟」。