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To sum up, nuclear boats should be used as little as possible in case of emergency. . .

The story of the nuclear ship vividly describes an exquisite micro-carving handicraft. This paper describes a ship carved with peach stones, which shows the superb realm of ancient craftsmanship and the wisdom of ancient working people in China.

Translation; In the Ming Dynasty, there was a man named Wang Shuyuan, who had wonderful and exquisite skills. (He) can carve palaces, vessels, figures, birds, animals, trees and stones from wood with a diameter of one inch. All these are carved into images according to the original shapes, and each has its own modality. (He) once sent me a boat carved out of peach with Su Dongpo boating on the Red Cliff. The bow is a little more than eight minutes from the stern, about two yellow rice grains high. The tall and spacious part in the middle is a hut covered with a canopy made of bamboo leaves. There are eight small windows next to it. When you open the window, the carved railings face each other. Close the window, you will see the inscription "The mountain is high and the moon is small, the truth is clear" on the right, and the inscription "The breeze is Xu Lai, the water is quiet" on the left, painted in the concave part of the word with azurite. There were three people sitting at the bow, with a tall hat in the middle and thick beards on their cheeks. On the right are Su Shi (Su Dongpo) and Fo Yin (monk), and on the left is Lu Zhi (Huang Tingjian). Su Dongpo and Lu Zhi look at a scroll of calligraphy and painting with banners. Su Dongpo's right hand holds the right end of the paper roll, and his left hand caresses Lu Zhi's back. Lu Zhi left hand holding a paper roll, right hand pointing to the hand roll, as if to say something. Su Dongpo showed his right foot, Lu Zhi showed his left foot, and each turned slightly. Their knees close to each other are hidden in the folds under the hand roll. Fo Yin is like Maitreya, naked and looking up. His expression is not similar to that of Su Dongpo and Lu Zhi. Fo Yin lay on his right knee, bent his right arm to support him in the boat, erected his left knee, leaned against his left knee and hung rosary on his left arm-rosary could be counted clearly. There is an oar at the stern. There is a boatman on the left and right sides of the paddle. The boatman on the right wears a tapered bun, leans back, leans his left hand against a crossbar, and pulls his right toe with his right hand, as if shouting. The man on the left is holding a palm leaf fan in his right hand and touching the stove in his left hand. There is a kettle on the stove. The man looked straight at the tea stove and looked calm, as if listening to the sound of boiling tea. The back of the boat is flat, and the author carved words on it. The word is "the apocalypse of autumn, the book of King Yushan is carved far away". The strokes are as small as mosquito's feet, clear and black. There is also a seal engraved with the words "Chu Pingshan people" and the color is red. A boat, carving five people and eight windows; Tents, paddles, stoves, teapots, hand rolls and rosaries made of bamboo leaves; Thirty-four couplets, titles and seal scripts. But it's less than an inch long. It turned out to be carved with a long and narrow peach stone. Ah! The skill is really amazing! Cabbage carefully looked at the nuclear ship and exclaimed, ah, what a skill! There are many skillful craftsmen recorded in Zhuangzi and Liezi, and they are known as uncanny workmanship. But who can carve his beard and eyebrows clearly with a knife in less than an inch of material? If there is such a person, tell me what I said, and I will definitely suspect that he is lying. This is a fact that I witnessed with my own eyes. Judging from this work, it is not impossible to carve a female monkey at the tip of a thorn. Ah, the skill is really amazing.