第二百一十二篇第二百一十二篇Story Two Hundred and Twelve

Tap Both to see the Chinese beside it

LeftTop

RightBottom

魁星

魁星

Story Two Hundred and Twelve · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

The God of Examinations

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: at night in a scholar's bedroom, a bare-capped young scholar in a loose gown kneels on the brick floor beside a canopy bed with his hands pressed together, looking up at a wild-haired, grinning figure like a temple image of the god Kuixing, who balances on one leg with a great brush raised and a small ink box in his hand, while fine rays of light spread behind him across a bookshelf, a desk, a lattice window and a round table with a lamp.