《唐餘錄》：廬樞為建州刺史，月夜聞堂西階下若有人語笑聲，躡足窺之，見七八人，長不盈尺，雜坐飲酒，久之，席中一人曰：“今夕甚樂，但白老將至，奈何？”因歎叱。須臾，皆入陰溝中不見。後數日罷郡，新政家有貓名曰白老。既至，自堂西階地下獲鼠七八枚，皆殺之。
According to the Records of the Tang Remainder,[1] Lu Shu was the prefect of Jianzhou. On a moonlit night, [he] heard sounds of talking and laughing near the western steps of the front room. [He] tiptoed over there and took a peep: seven or eight people, each not even a foot in height, were sitting about, drinking wine. After a while, one of them said, “What a lovely evening! Yet Old White is about to come. What shall we do?” [The party] went into a chorus of sighs and curses at these words. A few moments later, [they] all went into the gutter and disappeared. A few days later, Lu Shu was dismissed from the county. The new prefect had a house cat called “Old White”. After their arrival, [the cat] seized seven or eight mice from below the western steps and killed them all.
*From Wang Chutong 王初桐 (1729-1821) ed., Mao sheng 貓乘 (Historia Felum) 1.2a: https://ctext.org/library.pl?if=en&file=35233&page=7.
[1] This is a now-lost history of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period (907-979) compiled by Wang Gao 王皞 (fl. 11th century). It was one of Ouyang Xiu's 歐陽修 (1007-1072) key sources when he compiled the Xin Wudaishi 新五代史 (New History of the Five Dynasties).
Detail of "Linu tu" 貍奴圖, hanging scroll by Wang Li 王禮 (fl. 18th century)
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