A Plain-Language Guide to Notes from the Yuewei Hermitage

The Notes from the Thatched Abode, originally titled Notes from the Thatched Abode, is a collection of classical Chinese supernatural tales written in the style of informal notes. Ji Yun, a Hanlin Academy scholar from the Qing dynasty, compiled it between the fifty-fourth year of the Qianlong reign (1789) and the third year of the Jiaqing reign (1798).