Ch: Nanquan zhihua. Lit. "Nanzen 南泉 (Ch: Nanquan) pointing at flowers." A Zen 禅 (Ch: Chan) dialogue in which the government official Lu Dafu (Jp: Riku Taifu 陸大夫, 764-834) says to his teacher Nanquan, "I am of the same root as heaven and earth. Isn't it fantastic?" Nanquan (748-834) points to a flower and replies, "People of this age see this flower as if they were in a dream." This story, Case 40 of the Biyanlu (Jp: Hekiganroku 碧厳録, 1300) is one of several famous incidents involving Nanquan (see *Nanzen zanmyō 南泉斬猫). A picture of a Zen occasion *zenki-zu 禅機図, the theme typically shows the old priest pointing at a flowering peony as a scholar looks on. A hanging scroll (private collection) of the theme by Kano Sanraku 狩野山楽 (1559-1635) is well known.