出自《西厢记》第一本第二折。张生自打在普救寺佛殿旁撞见了莺莺之后，回到客店便坐卧不宁，害上了相思，脑海里尽是莺莺的俏模样。他随即做了一个决定：不急于上路，要设法在普救寺借住下来，以便找机会接近莺莺。第二天，张生又来到普救寺，专门拜访寺里的主持法本长老，商量借居之事。
After Zhang glimpsed Yinying outside the Buddha Hall in the Monastery of Universal Salvation, he went back to his rooms lovestruck. He was unable to think about anything else. Immediately he decided to prolong his stay and try to see her again. The next day he went back inside the monastery to pay a formal visit to the head abbot Faben.
A depiction of the scene on a Kangxi underglazed shallow bowl has adopted an even higher viewpoint – almost bird’s eye. A three panelled screen is visible. Both Abbot Faben and Scholar Zhang have their hands clasped in deference to each other. The former is seated on a stool while the latter is in an armchair. The clouds on the roof and the flowers in the foregreound have been rendered with underglaze copper red. The artist has purposefully highlighted the silk covering on the bundle Scholar Zhang’s pageboy is carrying. The tea serving monk is partly concealed by the screen. Edging into the scene from the left is a crane, whose presence is designed to evoke a highbrow atmosphere, like the banana plant in the previous image.
