The romance of the Western Chamber also ends on entirely to cheery a note, he had said. Use the present tense to describe your most recent work experience and past tense to describe your past experience. A group of men hold a snake-drawing competition to determine Who Will Win the small amount of wine available. After the first finishes, he adds legs to his drawing, allowing another man to finish first and win the wine. The expression refers to something superfluous. “Old Magpie’s nest” refers to her life before she returns to the Human world. Thus, he learned that “life is but a dream.” Matchless! Travelling westward here indicates India, and, by extension, Buddhism. Both expressions imply that at this point in the play, enlightenment is imminent. Her ancestors got possession of some cinnabar caves and were able to monopolize the profits from them for several generations until they had Acquired an inestimable amount of wealth.