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Books by 冬初
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Ghost Stories from North and South 南北方鬼故事
The essence of Chinese folk ghost stories lies in using supernatural tales to reflect every facet of human life. They are rich in fantasy yet carry profound moral lessons. Often featuring fox spirits, ghosts, and other supernatural beings, these stories explore the good and evil, beauty and ugliness of human nature through interactions between the living and the dead. At their heart are three key ideas: first, the ethics of karma and retribution; second, a simple yearning for justice, with ghost
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The Sixteen Hexagrams 十六卦
The Time Traveler: An Immortal Who Bears Yin and Yang I carry two trigrams within me as I journey through the river of time. The warm jade trigram on my chest holds the words “Life,” “Harmony,” “Peace,” and “Healing.” It has let me treat wounded soldiers amid the flames of war, concoct antidotes during plagues, and seek out grain seeds in times of famine. With it, I have eased the suffering of laborers in the Qin dynasty, listened to the poetry of the prosperous Tang, and guarded the kiln fires
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The Master of Obscure Facts 冷知识大师
What you think of as common knowledge may be just the tip of the iceberg. Are teeth harder than diamonds? Do bananas have a little natural radioactivity? Was ketchup once sold as medicine? These seemingly outrageous bits of trivia reveal the fascinating logic behind how the world works. The moments that challenge what you know are when your brain feels happiest. Ready for a wave of “So that’s how it is”?
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The Love Between an Angel and a Demon 天使和恶魔的爱情
God and Yan Wang were having dinner together when they both got drunk and started mocking each other’s worlds. They got so carried away that they made a bet to prove that the “people” in their own worlds were the most charming. Each chose the “man” they considered the most charming in their world and sent him to the human realm to find a suitable girl. Then the two most charming “women” went to the human realm to find a suitable boy. And so the four “people” set off, arriving in the human realm.
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I’m Just One of 900 Million Migrants 我只是九亿人中的一个迁徙者
I crawled out of the mire, and became the wolf they fear most! I used to be one of the 900 million young people living in county towns. Crammed into a rundown old street, I watched the world on my phone and earned barely enough to fill the gaps between my teeth, yet still had to feed the algorithm that sucked me dry. Then my child's cries woke me up: this little county town was a prison where people were slowly trapped to death. Dragging my wife and child into that colossal city of over a hundre
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The Love Diary of the Golden Cudgel 金箍棒的恋爱日记
I'm the Golden Cudgel, yes, the very 13,500-jin Sea-Calming Needle. You probably won't believe this, but I married Sun Wukong. Married life is basically a saga called The Monkey and the Cudgel: Love and Grudges. When he goes out to fight, I have to turn into an embroidery needle and hide in his ear. Come on, I'm a weapon, for crying out loud. Every day I have to listen to him digging out earwax loud enough to shake the heavens, and then he suddenly yells, “Grow! Grow! Grow!” I jump out in a frig
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