第三百六十三篇第三百六十三篇Story Three Hundred and Sixty-Three

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

The Felt of the Red-Hairs

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: on a sandy harbour shore in daylight, a bearded Ming official in a winged gauze cap strokes his beard and smiles beside a spear-bearing guard in a conical hat, while four curly-haired foreign sailors in short jackets and knee breeches kneel and pull a large patterned rug wider across the sand, one of them reaching out from the shallows, with barrels, a beacon tower, and a three-masted ship at anchor in the bay behind.