第二百一十五篇第二百一十五篇Story Two Hundred and Fifteen

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

The Scholar of Hejian

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in the lit upper room of a two-storey wine shop at night, a scholar seated at a table by the railing points out and downward, while a white-bearded old man standing beside him holds a wine jug and a plate of fruit and raises a hand in warning, and below in the hall a dignified man in a round-collared robe sits before a dish of kumquats between two other drinkers.