This painting depicts a famous gathering that took place in China in AD 353 to celebrate the Spring Purification Festival, also known as the Double Third Festival, as it takes place on the third day of the third lunar month. The host invited everyone to the Orchid Pavilion to compose poetry and drink wine. Guests floated wine cups down a nearby creek, and where they landed, people had to drink the wine and compose a poem.
![Xu You and Chao Fu [right of a pair of the Legends of Xu You, Chao Fu, and Bo Le], Soga Shōhaku, early 1760s](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/037000/100/80/37189/150416_mia328_001616_800.jpg)
![Bo Le [left of a pair of the Legends of Xu You, Chao Fu, and Bo Le], Soga Shōhaku, early 1760s](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/123000/000/90/123099/150416_mia328_001615_800.jpg)
![Cranes and Waves [right of a pair], Soga Shōhaku, 1760s](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/118000/200/10/118215/mia_7021806_800.jpg)
![Cranes and Waves [left of a pair], Soga Shōhaku, 1760s](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/118000/200/10/118216/mia_7021797_800.jpg)
![Carp [left of a triptych of Taigong Wang, Dragon, and Carp], Soga Shōhaku, c. 1760–80](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/127000/000/30/127031/mia_8012554_800.jpg)
![Taigong Wang [center of a triptych of Taigong Wang, Dragon, and Carp], Soga Shōhaku, c. 1760–80](https://img.artsmia.org/web_objects_cache/127000/000/30/127032/mia_8012558_800.jpg)
