Доклады Международного конгресса ИИСАА. Т. 1

III. Far East, South and South-East Asia / Дальний Восток, Южная и Юго-Восточная Азия Доклады Международного конгресса по источниковедению и историографии стран Азии и Африки. Т. 1. 2020 597 decorate hair, he is standing near the gate with all his belongings. The inscription says: 小夥寔堪誇，賣的綾絹花， 觀看一達婆，心內似把抓 A lad was touting a hairpin with a flower of silk, Saw an elderly woman Yida, and felt as if claws of love held on his heart. We suggest that such couplets were a part of a street folklore. Nianhua pictures often feature images of women with a tobacco pipe and a pouch. The pipe and the pouch themselves do not imply any wish of well-being and do not add any symbolism to the picture — these objects gained popularity due to widespread habit of tobacco smoking among the population of Chinese towns in the Qing period. The print of a mender of porcelain ware and ceramic ware is of particular interest, representatives of this trade gained a reputation as quick-witted people, jacks of all trades, even though they belonged to the lowest social strata. These prints have no workshop mark. MAE No.675–48/6 (fig. 6) Ahorizontally oriented picture of an instructive nature, consisting of two scenes with compositions mirroring each other, comparable in style and technique to the MAE No.675–48/5 print. The scene in the upper part of the picture shows a man aiming an arrow at a bird, a tiger is going down the rock behind him. A serving boy is holding Fig. 5. MAE No.675–48/5