An interesting distinction between the life of the peasant and that of the hermit, though, is given by Lin Ku-fang, an ethnomusicologist, who says that, "When you are planting the fields you are a peasant, when you are sitting back, looking at the mountains, you are a hermit."
民族音樂學者林谷芳為農圃隱逸下的定義是：「汗滴禾下土的時候是農夫，倚鋤望遠山的時候就是隱士了。」