During the Sung and Ming dynasties, he says, scholars became enthused with collecting antiques and art objects, and they would often use their eclectic array of lutes, games, books, paintings, and writing implements as objects of ornamentation by flower arrangements.
他解釋說，宋明以來，文人博古之風非常盛行，齋室中除了常見的琴棋書畫、文房四寶外，還擺飾了不少古董文玩，於是插花和博古結合，文人在把玩古物之餘，也錦上添花，兼得另一種欣賞古玩的趣味。