But by the time the gifted painter ShiTao (1642-c.1718) of the early Qing dynasty "racked his brains all day trying to depict her beauty," this little deciduous tree had already been testing the wits of Chinese literati for a couple of thousand years.
而在明末清初的天才畫家石濤「竟日抽思難寫盡」之前，這種落葉小喬木，已經鬥弄中國文人一兩千年了。