Modern Literature: Records of Mysterious Monsters

A collection of legendary novels from the Tang Dynasty, also known as "The Record of Ghostly Ghosts". The author Niu Sengru was the leader of the Niu Party during the "Niu-Li Party Struggle" in the mid-Tang Dynasty. "Xuanguailu" is probably his early work. It goes without saying that the writing is clever, the twists and turns are bizarre, and it goes without saying. What is even more rare is the extensive use of various narrative techniques such as perspective switching, time and space interlacing, and even a combination of flashbacks and reverse narrations. It is not only groundbreaking, but also readable, and was well received by readers at that time and later generations. Therefore, in Lu Xun's "A Brief History of Chinese Novels", he once commented: "There were many stories in the Tang Dynasty that selected legendary articles and collected them into one volume. And Xuanhe is no better than "Xuanguailu"."