What are the books about Chinese ghosts and legends?

1, Shan Hai Jing

"Shan Hai Jing" is a Chinese ancient book of ancient tales of ghosts and monsters, largely made by the people of Chu or Ba Shu in the mid-to-late Warring States period to the early to mid Han Dynasty. It is also an absurd and strange book. The author of the book is unknown.

The content of Shanhaijing is mainly geographic knowledge from folklore, including mountains, rivers, dori, ethnic groups, products, medicines, rituals, witch doctors and so on. It preserves a number of popular ancient myths, legends and fables, including Kwa-Fu's chase for the sun, Nuwa's mending of the sky, Jingwei's reclamation of the sea, and Dayu's treatment of the water.

2. Liaozhai Zhiqi

Liaozhai Zhiqi (abbreviated as Liaozhai, commonly known as Ghosts and Foxes) is a collection of short stories in the literary language written by Chinese novelist Pu Songling in the Qing Dynasty.

They either expose the darkness of feudal rule, attack the corruption of the imperial examination system, or rebel against the bondage of feudal rites, and are rich in profound ideological content. The works depicting the theme of love are the most numerous in the whole book, and they show the strong spirit of anti-feudalism. Some of these works show the author's ideal love through the love between a flower demon, a fox charm, and a human being.

3, "Xuanqi Lu"

Tang Dynasty legendary novels collection, Niu Shengru wrote. The original ten volumes, the present one volume.

Most of the book's interest involves the gods and immortals, regeneration, ghosts and monsters, which is related to the author's strong belief in Taoism, hobby, and so on. Artistically, the book focuses on the novelty of the story, the euphemistic text, the length of the book, and the gradual increase in the details and dialogues of the characters, which is obviously a development compared with the previous novels.

4 Zi Buyi

A collection of short stories in classical Chinese written by Yuan Mei, a literati scholar of the Qing Dynasty. The main collection of Zi Buyi was written before about the fifty-third year of the Qianlong reign (1788), and later some successive chapters were assembled into a sequel.

The Zi Bu Shi is full of bizarre stories about reincarnation, ghosts claiming their lives, and evil spirits; images of gods and ghosts such as Chenghuang (the city god), the land, ghosts of the wrongdoers, and pawns can be found everywhere, and there are only a few stories that do not involve ghosts and gods at all, and most of them promote superstitious ideas of "karma" and predestination. Yuan Mei also used these images of gods and ghosts and strange stories to show readers a complete society of the underworld.

5. "The Record of Searching for Gods"

A collection of novels recording magical and bizarre stories from ancient folklore, written by Gan Bao, a historian from the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

Sou Shen Ji is very rich in content, with prophecy and theology, fairy fantasy, elves and monsters, demonic auspiciousness and divination dreams, as well as human and god, human and ghost traffic and love. It retains a considerable part of the historical myths and legends passed down from the Western Han Dynasty and the folk tales of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, which are beautiful and moving, and are very popular among the people.