Now there are few examples of diao lacquer ware with a base of gold left. It is a history that makes one of Zhuangzi's lines about the undesirability of being of value poignantly prophetic: "Lacquer trees can be used, so they are hacked."
事實上，金胎漆器數量有限，然而卻因為懷有金胎而遭到劫難，這正應驗了莊子所云：「漆可用人故割之」的懷璧其罪了。