第四百六十二篇第四百六十二篇Story Four Hundred and Sixty-Two

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

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A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: In the banquet hall of an official residence, four seated officials in black caps sit behind a long table laden with cups, dishes and fruit, three of them laughing and one hiding his mouth behind his sleeve, while the stout host at the left end leans over the table and points angrily at a young scholar who stands at the right end with a wine cup and two raised fingers, before a landscape folding screen, a hanging lantern and a bamboo blind.