第一百九十七篇第一百九十七篇Story One Hundred and Ninety-Seven

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荷花三娘子

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Story One Hundred and Ninety-Seven · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Lotus Sanniangzi

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a lotus-filled lake in the early morning, a young scholar standing in the bow of a small boat leans forward with a punt pole and pushes aside a lotus leaf, while a girl in a thin gauze cape sits in a round tub-boat ahead of him, looking back over her shoulder with a spray of water-chestnut vine in her hand, with big lotus leaves and blooms around them and willows and a small arched bridge on the far shore.