So one ancient praised the gourd, or calabash, a queerly shaped vegetable that has served both as a vessel and a decoration for Chinese hermits, saints, and wanderers through the ages.
物華天寶，令人神往。談到壺蘆，一般人只知形狀，不明所以，腦海裡浮現的，不外是從民間傳說得來的印象：