第二百三十三篇第二百三十三篇Story Two Hundred and Thirty-Three

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

The Mountain God

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a grassy mountainside in daylight, a scholar sits on a straw mat with a wine cup in hand and turns to look, while three country drinkers start up in alarm, one half risen with a hand raised, one turning to run and one kneeling and pointing, toward a small, tall-hatted, long-faced robed figure standing on a stone path in the distance, with a roast fowl, a fish, fruit dishes and a wine jug on the mat, and a pine and boulders beside them.