Continuation of the Yijian Zhi Hunan News Yijian Zuxi Zhi: A Collection of Classical Novels

Author: Jin Haoyuan (compiled by Chang ZhenGuo), anonymous, Jin Xin (compiled by Jin Xin)
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Features: The Continuation of the Yijian Zhi (Four Volumes), written by Jin Yuanhao. Yuanhao (1190–1257), styled Yuzhi, styled Yishan, was a native of Xiurong, Taiyuan (now Xizhou, Shanxi). His ancestors traced back to the Tuoba clan of the Northern Wei Dynasty. The Continuation of the Yijian Zhi was written by the author in his later years as a sequel to Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi of the Song Dynasty. Although it is not as extensive as Yijian Zhi, its content is relatively rich. The New News from the Lakes and Seas: A Sequel to the Yijian Zhi is a collection of supernatural tales that appeared after Hong Mai's Yijian Zhi and Jin Yuanhao's The Continuation of the Yijian Zhi. Divided into two volumes and seventeen categories, it contains over 500 entries. The entry titled The Great Yuan's Prosperous Reign records the events of Genghis Khan, Ogedei Khan, and Kublai Khan, clearly indicating it was written by a Yuan Dynasty author. The rest are mostly stories from the Song Dynasty, with occasional tales from the Yuan Dynasty and earlier periods. The content of this book is quite complex, with most entries being supernatural tales, but a few entries also record historical anecdotes and lost texts, seemingly compiled from previous works.