Translation of Liu Yan Zhai's Notes
Wang Shuyuan, a native of Yushan, is skilled and can carve all kinds of things on peach stones. There is nothing as small as a hair, and it is not unclear. One day, he visited my new home in Chunbo with Chen Liangqing and Tu Yongming and gave me a boat carved with peach stones. The whole ship is only eight minutes (about three centimeters) long. The middle is carved into a canopy, and there are four windows on both sides of the cabin, each with a hinge. Open the small window, there is also a railing escalator inside. There is an old man carved on the bow, sitting casually with a big belly; There is a small square with a book on each side. There is also a stove in the box on the right, and the old man still has a book in his hand. There was another man at the stern, sitting beside him, with an oar hanging on the canopy. He has a tea stove engraved on one side, a hole under it, a teapot on it and even a spout with a handle. The eyebrows and clothes of the carved characters are clearly wrinkled. Each of the four windows is engraved with two words: the sky is high, the moon is small, the water falls and the stone comes out. There is a line on the bottom of the boat: Wang Shuyuan, and a small seal, only half the size of a millet. The words on it are: Wang Yiyin.