第二百八十二篇第二百八十二篇Story Two Hundred and Eighty-Two

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

The Ghosts’ Drinking Game

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a moonlit night in the hall of an old country temple, a bearded scholar with loosened collar tips his head back and drains a wine vessel while three companions laugh, clap, point and hold their sides around a low table of jugs, cups and fruit, and a travelling pedlar with his shoulder pole and baskets sits up on a straw bed in the corner to watch.