"Er Shi Lu" was written by Yue Jun, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty. It is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese. This book, like "Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio", both tells the story of strange powers and chaos. The content is "mostly about the entanglement of children, the vagueness of fairies and ghosts, and the laughter in the alleys occasionally to help make waves", and "the pen of charming flowers expresses the thoughts of carving snow". The writing style is beautiful, the descriptions are delicate, and the story is strong. It has the essence of "Liao Zhai" but is a little delicate. But compared with works of the same type at the same time, it is still an outstanding work and made certain contributions to the development of classical Chinese novels in the Qing Dynasty.
In order to make it easier for fans to read, the author translated the whole book using a text-to-white comparison method and edited it into "Er Shi Lu Translation".
This translation is based on the e-book "Er Shi Lu" produced by Qian Jianwen, and is collated with reference to other editions and related literature.
This translation is organized according to the table of contents and the original text plus the translation. There will be no translation and annotation for the first volume, second volume and the reprinted preface, and the original text will be appended to the back of the book.
The translation takes into account both the accuracy of the meaning and the smoothness of the writing. Wherever difficult and awkward parts are involved, free translation is the main method. For the more uncommon allusions, old examples, etc. In the original text, "Translator's Notes" will be added along with the text without additional annotations.
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