Let’s talk about those anecdotes: after 1949, there were still a few "

There are many novels in ancient China that record strange stories. I will list a few here for reference only. (Ranking by age) "The Classic of Mountains and Seas", "Huainanzi", Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci", Lie Kou's "Liezi", Zhuang Zhou's "Zhuangzi", "Yi Shi", "The Book of Songs"... Qian Bao's " "Sou Shen Ji", "Shen Yi Jing" and "Ten States" by Dongfang Shuo (by name), "Stories of Han Wu" and "Internal Biography of Emperor Wu of Han" by Ban Gu (by name), "Lieyi" by Cao Pi (by old title) "Biography", Zhang Hua's "Natural History", Ge Hong's "Biography of Immortals", Tao Qian (by name) "The Postscript of Searching for the Gods", Jin Wangjia's "Records of Supplements", Song Dongyang's "Qixie Ji" without a doubt, "Netherworld Record" by Liu Yi of the Song Dynasty, "Mingxiang Ji" by Qi Wangyan, "Xu Qi Xie Ji" by Liang Wujun, "Record of Wrongful Souls" by Yan Zhitui of the Northern Qi Dynasty... (During the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The novels of this period can be divided into Zhizhi There are many novels about monsters and people, but most of them have been lost. There are more than thirty kinds of them in existence. They describe unrealistic stories such as magical magic, ghosts and witches, strange objects, Buddhist supernatural beings, etc., and also record some unofficial histories. Anecdotes and folklore are full of novel and strange romanticism, including widely circulated stories such as "Gan Jiang Moye", "Song Dingbo" and "Li Ji") Wang Du's "Ancient Mirror" and the anonymous "Supplement". Mr. Jiang's "Biography of the White Monkey", Zhang Jue's "Youxian Cave", Shen Jiji's "The Story of the Pillow" and "The Story of the Ren Family", Chen Xuanyou's "Legend of the Soul", Li Chaowei's "The Story of Liu Yi", Li Gongzuo's "The Story of the South" "The Biography of Governor Ke", Du Guangting's "The Biography of the Bearded Guest", Bai Xingjian's "Three Dreams", Xue Tiao's "Wu Shuang Biography"... (the above are works from the Sui and Tang Dynasties. This period, especially the Tang Dynasty, was dominated by the legends of the Northern and Southern Dynasties). , Zhiren novels developed into legendary novels. Most of them were about strange things, so later generations will collectively refer to the novels of this period as "legends")