第三百八十五篇第三百八十五篇Story Three Hundred and Eighty-Five

Tap Both to see the Chinese beside it

陵縣狐

陵县狐

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

The Fox of Ling County

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: in a scholar's study by day, a bearded elderly scholar in a wide-sleeved gown points a finger at a fox trotting across the brick floor with a woven basket clapped over its head, while one young servant behind him grins holding a loose cord and another by the open door covers his mouth to hold back laughter, with vases, a bronze tripod, a curio cabinet and bookshelves behind and bamboo and a garden rock beyond the doorway.