第一百二十二篇第一百二十二篇Story One Hundred and Twenty-Two

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Story One Hundred and Twenty-Two · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Li Sijian

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a late-autumn day in a City God temple courtyard, a lone scholar in a wide-sleeved gown kneels at the front edge of a raised opera stage with a butcher's cleaver resting point-down on the boards, his head thrown back and mouth open as he calls out toward the small clay statue of the god seated in the hall across the flagstone yard, with a bronze incense burner, potted chrysanthemums, bare trees with fallen leaves, and a low wall and rooftops behind.