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Jian Deng Newspeak (top Ten Banned Books in Ancient China)
General Fiction剪灯新话(中国古代十大禁书)
(ming Dynasty) Qu You
"Jian Deng Xin Hua" is a collection of classical Chinese short stories written by Qu You in the Ming Dynasty. It mainly focuses on smoke powder, ghosts, the underworld, and love stories. Through themes such as unresolved love between humans and ghosts, and mapping of the nether world, it shows fantasy and magnificent imagination and lingering emotions. It contains both a sense of chaos and confusion. It is a profound reflection on the world and an exploration of the complexity of human nature. It also uses the underworld to satirize social injustice and official corruption in the real world, placing its thoughts on karma and retribution. At the same time, it reveals compassion for the deep suffering caused to the people by the war in the late Yuan Dynasty. It has high literary and ideological value. ?
"Jian Deng Xin Hua" is a collection of classical Chinese short stories written by Qu You in the Ming Dynasty. It mainly focuses on smoke powder, ghosts, the underworld, and love stories. Through themes such as unresolved love between humans and ghosts, and mapping of the nether world, it shows fantasy and magnificent imagination and lingering emotions. It contains both a sense of chaos and confusion. It is a profound reflection on the world and an exploration of the complexity of human nature. It also uses the underworld to satirize social injustice and official corruption in the real world, placing its thoughts on karma and retribution. At the same time, it reveals compassion for the deep suffering caused to the people by the war in the late Yuan Dynasty. It has high literary and ideological value. ?