Ink rubbing of a stele, in the form of a hanging scroll on paper. It depicts a male Daoist figure wearing lotus-shaped headgear and a long robe, holding a sword in his left hand. There are four Chinese characters 'guang shi xiao xiang' carved in seal script along the top right corner. There is an inscription along the bottom left border, which indicates this ink rubbing is taken from a stele dated to the 13th year of the Yongzhen period (1735) in the Qing dynasty.
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