Thousands of years ago, the Tang Dynasty was the undisputed center of the world. Superior material life and diverse cultural integration gave birth to the ultimate imagination of the people of the Tang Dynasty. A generation of legendary poets such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Wang Wei, Meng Haoran, and Bai Juyi used their poems to depict gorgeous paintings of the Tang Dynasty; while the traders and pawns walking through the markets used their more uninhibited imagination to outline the longing phantoms of gods, demons, and monsters in the night of the Tang Dynasty; even the prime minister of the dynasty would close the door after dark, light a candle, and start writing ghost stories.
These stories were recorded by Duan Chengshi, Niu Sengru, Li Fuyan and others in hundreds of "Youyang Miscellanies", "Xuanguailu", "Jiyiji", "Boyizhi", "Ganze Ballad", "Duyang Zabian", "Sanshui Xiaoshu", etc., And became the source of inspiration and creative blueprint for all fantasy and monster stories in later generations.
Now, let us brush aside the pile of historical papers and see what kind of amazing scenes are hidden behind the gorgeous imagination of the people of the Tang Dynasty; look at these scenes and record for us what secrets have been buried for thousands of years...
