The imagery of sight
When the shop attendant gives the narrator and Pooh The Vinegar Tasters, he leaves them, and they start to look at it. The narrator's description paints a picture of what they are seeing. The narrator says, “Although we can see that this is a fairly recent version, we know that the original was painted long ago; just when it is uncertain.”
The imagery of the three men
While the narrator and Pooh are standing, they notice three men coming to taste the vinegar. A mental picture is created for readers when the narrator says, "We see three men standing around a vat of vinegar. Each has dipped his finger into the vinegar and has tasted it. The expression on each man's face shows his reaction."
The taste of vinegar
The sense of taste is depicted when the narrator describes the painting in which Lao-tse is smiling. The narrator says, "After all, that vinegar that represents life must certainly have an unpleasant taste, as the expressions in the faces of other two men indicate."
The imagery of life
Life is painted as an image when the author uses Lao-tse’s assertion to describe why it is sour. Lao-tse says, “The more man interfered with the natural balance of produced and governed by the universal laws, the further away the harmony retreated into the distance. Lao-tse continues to argue, "When abstract and arbitrary rules were imposed from the outside, the struggle was inevitable. Only then did life become sour."
