Dinner-table geography lessons Art historian Hugh Honour wrote that the Chinese landscapes which he got to know from the willow pattern plates off which he ate every day as a child, created his image of far-off China.
知名的藝術史學者修．歐諾曾經表示，小時候每天從餐桌柳葉盤上，學而「食」習之的中國園景，勾畫了他對遙遠中國的印象。