This is a collection of folk anecdotes recorded from all over the country.
From the red cloth shoes in the red brick building in Caojia Lane, Chengdu, to the shadow puppet show in the old courtyard of Santiaoying, Nanjing; from the wonton fragrance that lingers for half a month from the public housing in Ciyunshan, Hong Kong, to the children's voices in the gate of the old city of Baoshan, Yunnan that persist for hundreds of years.
I have traveled through more than 20 provinces and cities across the country, visited ancient houses in deserted villages, old alleys and old buildings. I have heard mysterious things that countless people keep secret, and I have also seen too many obsessions that span life and death.
Some people say that ghosts are evil spirits that are extremely dark and cold, and they are nightmares that cause fright in the middle of the night.
But what I have seen is a mother who still cooks a bowl of hot wontons for her son half a month after her death, a master who has been trapped on the stage for eighty years just waiting for his apprentice to finish singing a play, and an innocent soul who died unjustly but never harmed the innocent.
It turns out that the strongest thing in this world is never the fierce ghost, but the concern engraved in the bones, the unspoken apology, and the promise trapped in time that cannot be let go until death.
In the final analysis, all late-night talk is the unfinished truth of the world.
Welcome to open "Ghost Stories in the World" and listen to me tell you about these stories hidden in the world of fireworks and spanning Yin and Yang.
