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This Jade Picture" album was painted by Li Chengyuan in the Qing Dynasty. The album contains a total of twelve painted color pictures, which record and depict the main steps of traditional jade making: pounding sand, grinding pulp, opening jade, tying, punching, grinding, digging the hall, on the flower, drilling, piercing flowers, eye-catching, wood, and leather jade. Each picture is accompanied by a text description, and a map of jade mining in Xinjiang is attached to the back of the book. This is the preface picture book of the 17th year of Guangxu in the Qing Dynasty. This album not only depicts the scene of the jade maker's labor operation, but also indicates the names of important tools one by one. It is divided into thirteen processes, of which the "sand pounding diagram" and "pulping diagram" are combined into one picture, and the eleven processes from three to thirteen are one each, with a total of twelve paintings. In the middle of each picture is the main screen, and there are three vertical columns on the left and right sides, and the first line is the process number and process name. The description of the back calligraphy. Li Chengyuan, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, was born and died in unknown age. Li Chengyuan had a close relationship with Stephen Wootton Bushell, a famous scholar who was active in China in the late Qing Dynasty, a British doctor and orientalist. "Yu Zuotu Theo" was made at the request of Bu Shili."