Immortal Legend Quick Read: The Key to Creation

Author: Gao Daopeng
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Publish Date: 2004-10-01
Features: The books here are something you must read at least once in your lifetime, whether you are ten, thirty, or seventy years old! A minimalist reading list of Chinese culture. From the vast collection of ancient books, sixty classics have been selected for the first time to present the style and appearance of Chinese five thousand years of culture in a light and easy-to-read format. A renowned authority on Chinese classics in Taiwan re-examines the classics with a 21st-century perspective, traversing the past and present, covering vast distances, and guiding you into the "unfenced museum of Chinese culture." In addition to the legendary tales scattered in official histories, there are many in notes, novels, and dramatic legends that have become part of folk beliefs. Then there are the Taoist priests in the Taoist Canon, which is a more systematic and well-documented record. By the Ming Dynasty, Wang Shizhen compiled the Complete Biography of Immortals based on numerous materials, documenting all immortals from ancient times to the Ming Dynasty. This book is mainly adapted from that work.