Waking World Everlasting Stories

Author: Feng Menglong
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Publish Date: 2001-03-01
Features: A Collection of Stories to Warn the World (Xingshi Hengyan), a collection of fictional tales set in the Ming Dynasty, is part of the "Three Canons" alongside A Collection of Stories to Enlighten the World (Yushi Mingyan) and A Collection of Stories to Warn the People (Jingshi Tongyan). Compiled by Feng Menglong. The tales included in this collection are mostly adaptations of works by previous authors. Through adaptation, the original themes of the stories are made more prominent and emotionally engaging, becoming frequent topics of conversation among the people during their leisure time. The forty stories are collected in a single volume, similar to today's short story collections. Some of the more influential stories include The Oil Seller's Exclusive Claim to the Beauty, The Gardener's Late Encounter with a Fairy, Judge Qiao's Chaotic Matching of Birds and Fish, and The Fifteen Guan Coin that Turned a Joke into a Calamity.