Feng Menglong's Three Strange Books

Author: Feng Menglong
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: The Ming Dynasty popular literature writer Feng Menglong authored four collections of anecdotal essays, namely "Zhi Nan" (Wisdom Treasury), "Tan Gai" (Discussions and Glimpses), "Qing Shi" (History of Love), and "Xiao Fu" (Laughing), which were later collectively known as Feng Menglong's Four Great Unusual Books. These works are equally renowned as his "San Yan" (Three Words) and "Er Pai" (Two Snaps). This edition compiles the first three of these into "Feng Menglong's Three Great Unusual Books." Among them, "Zhi Nan" primarily consists of stories reflecting the wisdom of ancient people that Feng Menglong excerpted from various classical texts, divided into ten parts and twenty-eight categories. "Tan Gai" is a collection of extraordinary anecdotes and tales of ancient people, organized into thirty-six categories. "Qing Shi" mainly gathers love stories of ancient people from various tales and notes, which include elements of absurdity and superstition, and is divided into twenty-four categories.