第二百九十一篇第二百九十一篇Story Two Hundred and Ninety-One

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閻羅宴

阎罗宴

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

Yama’s Banquet

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in the daytime in a great palace hall, a smiling bearded king in a beaded crown and wide embroidered robes sits behind a banquet table holding out a small cloth packet of silver, while a poor scholar in a worn gown leans forward and reaches out a hand to take it, with a screen painted with mountains and pines, a bronze incense burner, a stool, and a terrace with distant roofs and old trees around them.