It borrows from the cultural motif of the “Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove,” yet makes a deliberate semantic shift with the character xián (闲).
The move from xián (贤, “sage”) to xián (闲, “leisure”) marks a descent from lofty moral ideals to the gentle looseness of everyday emotion; from historical figures to anonymous contemporary silhouettes; from the transcendent realm of sages to the rare, hard-won state of leisure in modern life.
