Li Yin's charming "Flowers of the Four Seasons" (1649) and Xue Wu's exuberant "Wild Orchids" (1601) are by women artists who painted them to entertain and earn money.
The whole place appears to have sprouted out of the ground in a forest clearing scattered with blazing colour: bruised pink hyacinths, magenta-tinged wild gladioli and orchids with petals the colour of oyster shells.