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III. Far East, South and South-East Asia / Дальний Восток, Южная и Юго-Восточная Азия 596 Proceedings of the International Congress on Historiography and Source Studies of Asia and Africa.Vol. I. 2020 million liang of silver has already been spent on construction of this bridge, the treasury has been depleted; I shall help you to raise money, then I shall call the Eight Immortals to aid you in suppressing demons and protect you from future misfortunes.” Then Bodhisattva suddenly turned into a beautiful maiden floating along the Luoyang Jian River in a boat and shouted: “Who will manage to hit me with a coin — that one I shall agree to marry.” People crowded along the two banks of the river, rich and poor, each one trying to outrun the others and throw a coin into her boat. Money fell into the boat, but not a single coin hit the girl. The upset men went away, but a lot of money was gathered and spent on rails, pavilions, and lion figures on the bridge” 1 . The Ningtai Dian 寧泰店 workshop was among the ‘four big houses’ inWuqiang in the early Qing period (XVII cent.), whereas this woodblock print was produced in the middle of the XIX century. The family that owned the Ningtai workshop leased out the printing equipment in the Nanguan settlement 南關 , where there were over a hundred of tables for picture painting, fifty of which were located in the older part of the settlement. In the Shundefu county 顺德府 (modern Xingtai 邢台 , Hebei Province 河北 ), Pingshan 平山 and Zhangjiakou 張家口 there were three branches of Ningtai shop each with 30–50 printing tables, whereas the branch in the Inner Mongolia had 10 tables; the number of workers reached 300 persons, the production was all-year-round 2 . MAE No.675–48/5 (fig. 5) A horizontally oriented print consisting of two home scenes with compositions mirroring each other. The description of the scene in the right part of the picture. Awoman is standing at the gate of a house with a tobacco pipe in her hand; she is talking to a mender of ceramic utensils, who is situated nearby with his instruments for repair and is boring a hole in a vat with a hand drill. The upper part of the scenery contains an inscription on the right: 據爐釘角匠，觀看王二娘 意馬拴不住，錘子砸了堈 As soon as the Stove Master saw the Second Lady Wang, He dropped his hammer and broke a clay pot. The scene on the left print includes a woman standing at the gate of a house with a tobacco pipe in her hand; she is talking to a vendor selling artificial flowers to 1 Legend of the Luoyang bridge 洛阳桥 . https://baike.baidu.com/item/ 洛 阳桥 /3550436 (accessed 11.07.2019). 2 Zhongguo mubanhua jicheng. Wuqiang juan / Ed. Feng Jicai. Beijing, 2009. P. 309.