第四百六十五篇第四百六十五篇Story Four Hundred and Sixty-Five

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

Xue Weiniang

A line drawing in the manner of a late-Qing lithographed edition: inside a plain thatched country house by day, a smiling old man sits on a stool raising one hand, a young girl stands in the middle offering a steaming bowl on a tray, and a thin young scholar in a patched gown bows to them with clasped hands, with a window, a table with jars and twigs, a clay stove and kettle, a rush mat and a village lane seen through the open door.