Various Classics, Anecdotes and Novels

This is an encyclopedic work about the strange stories and secret history of the Tang Dynasty.

This is an encyclopedic work about the strange stories and secret history of the Tang Dynasty. This series of works is based on the Tang Dynasty's "Youyang Zazu", "Legend", "Records", "Yi Shi", "Que History", "Xuanwei Lu", "Xuan Shi Zhi", "Guang Yi Ji", "Du Yi Zhi" and "Collected Yi Ji" " "Bo Yi Zhi", "Zi Yi Ji", "Xiao Xiang Lu", "Hedong Ji", "Collection of Spirits and Monsters", "Wen Qi Lu", "Jing Ting Lu", "Tong You Ji", "Yuan Hua Ji", "Strange Stories", "Qian Zi" and "Shu Xuan Lu". "Collection of Strange News", "Records of Strange Stories", "Ganze Ballads", "Drama Talks", "Rongmu Chats", "Jinxi Chats", "Guiyuan Congtan", "Xu Xuan Wei Lu", "Du Yang Zabian", "Sanshui Xiaoshu" " "Chaos and Wildernesses", "Stories of China and North Korea", "Yutang Gossip", "Xu Xian Biography", "Xian Zhuan Supplements", "Yongcheng Collection of Immortals", etc. Are used as clues to explore the dark and strange stories behind that bright and beautiful era.

This is an encyclopedic work about the strange tales and secret history of the Tang Dynasty written by the author based on his notes on the strange stories of the Tang Dynasty. There are three books in this series, one of which is eight volumes.

"The Story of Cui Yingying Waiting for the Moon in the West Chamber" (referred to as "The Story of the West Chamber", also known as "Wang's West Chamber" and "The North West Chamber") is a drama created by Wang Shifu in the Yuan Dynasty. It was probably written during the Yuanzhen and Dade years (1295~1307). The whole play tells the story of scholar Zhang Sheng (Zhang Junrui) and Miss Xiangguo Cui Yingying, with the help of the lady matchmaker, overcoming numerous obstacles from Sun Feihu, Cui's mother, Zheng Heng and others, and finally getting married. The play has a strong anti-feudal etiquette color. The author writes about young people's desire for love, the uncontrollable and legitimate nature of love and desire, and the conflict between young people's own wishes and the will of their parents. It expresses the concept of love that "everything in the world is willing to be loved". The whole play has a grand structure, using five volumes and 20 folds to perform a complete story, which is rare in ancient dramas. The plot of the play is fascinating, the images are vivid and vivid, the writing is brilliant, and it is very poetic.

"The Peony Pavilion's Dream of Resurrection" (referred to as "The Peony Pavilion", also known as "The Dream of Resurrection" or "The Dream of the Peony Pavilion"). The legend (script) written by Tang Xianzu, a playwright of the Ming Dynasty, was published in the forty-fifth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1617). The play tells the story of Du Liniang, a daughter of an official, who fell in love with Liu Mengmei, a scholar in her dream, and died of grief. She turned into a soul to find her lover in reality, fell in love with ghosts, and finally came back to life, and finally became united with Liu Mengmei forever. The play has elegant diction and beautiful language. The play is one of the outstanding works in the history of Chinese opera. Together with "The Story of Cui Yingying Waiting for the Moon in the West Chamber", "The Injustice of Dou E" and "The Palace of Eternal Life", it is known as the four major Chinese classical dramas.

In the past, people learned to write modern poetry and lyrics as enlightenment books to familiarize themselves with antithesis, rhyme, and organization of words. The author, Li Yu, was named Li Weng, so it was called "Li Weng Duiyun". The whole book is divided into Volume One and Volume Two. It is organized according to rhyme, including virtual and real responses to astronomy, geography, flowers and trees, birds and beasts, people, utensils, etc. From single-character pairs to two-character pairs, three-character pairs, five-character pairs, seven-character pairs to eleven-character pairs, the sounds and rhymes are harmonious and catchy, and you can get training in pronunciation, vocabulary, and rhetoric. From single characters to multi-character pairs. Compared with other three-character and four-character sentences, it has more charm.

Also known as "Xianwen of the Past" and "Xianwen of the Ancient and Modern Times", it is a children's enlightenment book compiled during the Ming Dynasty in China. The title of the book was first seen in the opera "The Peony Pavilion" during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. From this, it can be inferred that the book was written during the Wanli period at the latest. "Zengguang Xianwen" collects various Chinese mottos and proverbs from ancient times to the present. Later, after continuous additions by literati from the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was changed into its current form, called "Zengguang Xianwen", commonly known as "Zengguang Xianwen". The author has never seen any book records. He only knows that the Confucian scholar Zhou Xitao revised it during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. It is likely to be the crystallization of folk creations in the Qing Dynasty.

Lao She wrote it in New York between 1948 and 1949. Because the Chinese original manuscript was lost, it was re-translated into Chinese by Ma Xiaomi based on the English translation of The Drum Singers. This book tells the story of the suffering experience of the Dagu calligraphy artist Fang Baoqing's family: Baoqing's brother Baosen was killed by the Japanese army; his daughter Xiulian was ruined by Zhang Wen after her marriage to the progressive writer Meng Liang fell through; and her married daughter Dafeng was also abandoned. "Artists of Drum Calligraphy" tells the story of old-style artists pursuing a new life in the storm of the Anti-Japanese War. It presents the true image of revolutionaries and calls for the arrival of New China.

A novella by Austrian writer Franz Kafka. "Metamorphosis" was completed in 1912 and first published in the October issue of the monthly "White Book" in 1915. The protagonist Gregor Samsa in "The Metamorphosis" works as a traveling salesman in a company. He travels around for many years and works hard to support the entire family's expenses. When Samsa could still support his unsympathetic family with a meager salary, he was the respected eldest son in the family. His parents praised him and his sister loved him. When one day he turned into a beetle, lost his labor force, and no longer contributed materially to the family, his family changed their previous respect for him and gradually showed a face of indifference, disgust, and hatred. His father beat him viciously with an apple, his mother fainted from fright, and his sister disliked him. Gradually, Samsa moved away from society, and finally died silently and painfully of hunger. Kafka used his own unique artistic style to artistically recreate the "incident of man turning into a beetle" using symbols, detailed descriptions and other techniques, giving the work an absurd and incredible tone. Samsa's experience in "The Metamorphosis" is a symbol of the fate of the little people at the bottom in that era of extremely abundant material but as thin as a veil of human kindness. The novel uses the absurd story of the protagonist turning into a beetle to reflect the reality that people in the world are only profit-seeking, worshiping money, disdainful of true love and humanity, and are eventually squeezed and deformed by society. It also reflects the real social life under the capitalist system.

Originally titled "Revisiting Old Things", it is a collection of essays by modern writer Lu Xun.

"Renjian Cihua" is the most famous work on Cihua in modern China. The author Wang Guowei uses traditional word forms and traditional concepts, terminology and thinking logic, and naturally incorporates some new concepts and methods, and the theoretical issues he summarizes have quite universal significance. This caused it to have a major repercussions among readers of the new and old generations at that time, and it has a lofty status in the history of modern Chinese literary criticism.

A collection of novels written by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The protagonist is named Sherlock Holmes (also translated as Sherlock Holmes). There are 4 novels and 56 short stories in total. The first novel, A Study in Scarlet, was completed in 1886 and was published together with other works in the Beeton Christmas Annual the following year. It has been adapted into movies and TV series many times.

"Zhuan*lu" is a philosophical work written by Wang Shouren (alias Bo'an), a Chinese philosopher from the Ming Dynasty and a representative figure of the Neo-Confucian school in the Song and Ming Dynasties, known as Mr. Yangming in the world. This book records his quotations and academic letters. The word "chuan*" comes from the phrase "chuanbu*hu" in "The Analects of Confucius".

A collection of works by the famous thinker and legalist Han Fei during the Warring States Period. "Han Feizi" was compiled by his descendants after Han Fei's death. According to "Han Shu·Yiwen Zhi", fifty-five chapters of "Han Zi" are recorded, and "Sui Shu·Jing Ji Zhi" records twenty volumes. Zhang Shoujie's "Historical Records Zhengyi" quotes Ruan Xiaoxu's "Qi Lu" (or Liu Xiang's "Qi Lu") and also states that "Han Feizi" has twenty volumes." The number of chapters and volumes are consistent with the current version, which shows that the current version is not incomplete. Many of the folklore and fables of the time in the book have also become the sources of idioms and allusions.

The author was Feng Menglong from the Ming Dynasty. The book was first compiled in the sixth year of Tianqi in the Ming Dynasty (1626). The book contains more than 1,200 stories of think tanks from the pre-Qin Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. It is a history of the creation and practice of the wisdom of the Chinese people. The characters shown in the book are all using wisdom and strategy to create history. It is not only a wonderful book that reflects the ancient people's clever use of wisdom to solve problems and defeat enemies, but also a huge resource collection in the history of Chinese culture.

A scientific work by British physicist Stephen William Hawking, first published in 1988. The book has twelve chapters in total, telling the most cutting-edge knowledge about the nature of the universe, including: the image of our universe, space and time, the expanding universe, the uncertainty principle, black holes, the origin and destiny of the universe, etc. It introduces knowledge about distant galaxies, black holes, particles, antimatter, etc. In a simple and easy-to-understand way, and elaborates on the origin of the universe, space and time, and ancient propositions such as the theory of relativity. In the book, Hawking explores unresolved conflicts in existing theories of the universe and points out problems in unifying quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, and general relativity. The book is positioned to make his theory and the mathematics of it accessible to general readers interested in cosmology.

Also known as "Sun Wu's Art of War", "Wu Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Sun Tzu's Art of War", "Sun Wu's Art of War", etc., It is the earliest extant military book in China and the earliest military work in the world. It is known as the "sacred book of military science". There are about 6,000 words in total, and there are thirteen articles in total.

"The Social Contract" (French: Du Contrat Social, also translated as "The Civil Contract", or "The Principles of Political Rights") is a political work published by the French thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau in 1762. The Social Contract is divided into four volumes: Volume One discusses social structure and the social contract, Volume Two deals with sovereignty and its rights, Volume Three deals with government and its forms of operation, and Volume Four discusses several social organizations. The idea of ​​sovereignty among the people in "The Social Contract" is the cornerstone of the modern democratic system and profoundly influenced the revolutionary movements in Europe and the war of independence in the British North American colonies.

"Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" is a masterpiece of Huang Lao Taoism compiled by disciples under the auspices of Qin State Prime Minister Lu Buwei. It was written on the eve of Qin Shihuang's unification of China. This book takes Confucianism as its main body, Taoism theory as its basis, and Ming, Dharma, Mohism, Nong, Bing, and Yin-Yang schools of thought as its material. It integrates the theories of hundreds of schools of thought into one furnace, shining with the light of profound and profound wisdom.

According to legend, it was written by Huang Shigong in the late Qin Dynasty. It is regarded as a strange book and a heavenly book among the people. Although it proposes that "Tao, virtue, benevolence, righteousness, and propriety are all integrated into one," "Su Shu" takes Tao, virtue, benevolence, righteousness, and propriety as the basis for governing the country.