第三百零一篇第三百零一篇Story Three Hundred and One

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三朝元老

三朝元老

Story Three Hundred and One · Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio

Elder Statesman of Three Dynasties

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in the daytime reception hall of a military commander's headquarters, a scholar in a wide-sleeved gown stands with his head raised, reading aloud from a sheet of paper held up in one hand with the other arm stretched out, while a stern elderly general in official cap and robe sits stiffly in a high-backed armchair gripping its arms, with a landscape screen, a long table with an incense burner and brush pot, a weapon rack and a lattice window behind them, and a small altar with candles and hanging banners seen through the open doorway on the left.