The first illustration at the top is captioned "At first, the young spouse seemed as bright as the moon..." and portrays the romantic beginning of a relationship where the man looks at the woman with deep admiration as she smiles shyly.
The second illustration at the bottom is captioned "After having a child, he began to admire someone else..." and depicts the breakdown of that romance after marriage where the exhausted and angry wife holds their crying child while the husband completely ignores his family to daydream and look away, symbolizing unfaithfulness and lost affection.
Taken together, these two drawings serve as a social satire on the quick fading of romance and the realities of domestic neglect in rural marriages.
