Danchenzhai Anecdotes

The author, Zi Yun (original name: Liu Yun), was born in midsummer of the Jiachen year in a multi-ethnic settlement called "Ulan". Born in the Western Regions and raised in the south of the Yangtze River, it was just a matter of chance that he wandered throughout his life. Busy here and there for life; asking for advice for life; studying literature and poetry and painting all his life, but he accomplished nothing and was depressed for half his life; the more he lived, the more "confused" he became, and it was hard to change his mind. After wasting half a hundred years, there are still "two rickety rooms and a person with a southern accent and a northern accent..."