Scroll depicts official revelry 1,000 years ago

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Han Xizai, a high-ranking official of the Southern Tang, a kingdom of the Five dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (AD 907-960) period, was a talented man, but given to sensual pleasures.

He kept a number of singers and dancers to entertain guests at his nighttime revelries.