Shishuoxinyuquanjian (Collection Reading Edition)

"Shishuoxinyu" is a notebook novel that records anecdotes of the metaphysical talks of scholar-bureaucrats in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It can be seen from the novel that talking about metaphysics became a fashion during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and metaphysics was based on the Taoist thoughts of Lao and Zhuang. Taoist thoughts had an important impact on the thinking styles and living conditions of the scholars in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and even the entire social atmosphere. It was compiled by a group of literati organized by Liu Yiqing (403-444), Linchuan King of the Liu Song Dynasty in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and annotated by Liu Jun of the Liang Dynasty. The original eight volumes of the book are divided into ten volumes with Liu Jun's annotation. The current version is divided into three volumes, divided into thirty-six categories such as virtue, speech, political affairs, literature, founder, and magnanimity. There are more than a thousand chapters in the book, which record anecdotes about celebrities and nobles from the late Han Dynasty to the Liu Song Dynasty. They are mainly stories about character comments, abstruse talk, and witty responses.