Tradition gets a bit of a jolt — although a gentle one — with photorealist works by Robert Cottingham and Richard Estes.

[…]; propagation and growing of chrisanthemums, orchideas, strelitzia, anthurium, geraniums, kalanchoes and pot-grown foliage ornamentals; breeding of perennial and woody ornamentals, chrisanthemums, orchideas, strelitzia and kalanchoes;

‘Could you pinch a tin of pozzy out of stores?’

Every child of Pʻu-tʻien knows that the fertile plain, girdled by mountains and facing the Yellow Sea, was once a great salt marsh, for Pʻu-tʻien means Salt Grass Fields. It was Lady Fourth Daughter, a Chinese girl of the Sung Dynasty, a thousand years ago, who dreamed of building a dam to hold back the salt tides, and to send the fresh life-giving waters of the River of Playful Fairies into a system of canals threading the plain. Thus would the salt marshes be redeemed into rice fields for the feeding of countless villages. The fair, high-walled county seat came to be named Hing-hwa, Transformed to Flourishing, because of her gift of Fertile Fields. Being a child of Pʻu-tʻien myself I, too, have always known the lovely legends about Lady Fourth Daughter of the family of Ching.