第一百三十三篇第一百三十三篇Story One Hundred and Thirty-Three

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Story One Hundred and Thirty-Three · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The Dragon Birth

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: inside a farmhouse bedroom, an old village woman stands bent beside a curtained bed, holding up a burning incense stick in one hand and pressing the other on the quilt over a pained young woman lying on the pillow, while a woman of the household by the open door at the left shrinks back with her sleeve over her mouth, with an incense burner on a table, a round lattice window, a chest and a water jar around them.