第二百二十篇第二百二十篇Story Two Hundred and Twenty

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

The White Lotus Sect

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in a daytime country courtyard, a standing man in a headcloth and wide-sleeved robe points at a large round bronze mirror hung on a wooden frame, in which a crowned, dragon-robed king-like figure is reflected, while an old man kneels with clasped hands and two other villagers bow low on the flagstones, with a gate-house, a lattice hall, an incense burner and a gnarled tree behind.