Fourth, vegetables represent the bucolic life of the countryside--rural life not in its aspects of poverty or hardship but as part of a vision of natural harmony that was often pursued by Chinese scholars.
此外，中國文人的田園生活也常以蔬菜引寓。這種田園生活已非貧窮或困厄，反而代表中國文人追求的那種自適怡然的人生觀。