This is the chamber that attracts the tourists most and, just as in the essay by the 4th-century poet Tao Yuan-ming, while their clothes betray their foreigness, all appear to be at ease. Ask the pagod who has been grinning on the mantelpiece for more than two hundred years if he knows what dynasty this is, and if there really is a paradise.
環顧四下，男女衣著，悉如外人，黃髮垂髫，怡然自樂。問今世何世，壁台上坦腹微笑了兩百年的彌勒瓷佛，是否也「不知有漢，無論魏晉」？