Zongheng catalogue
Books by Shen Xushan
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Tales of the Strange in Southern Shandong: Dragon-Summoning Temple 鲁南诡事录：降龙观
At Dragon-Subduing Temple on Wolong Ridge, the Daoist masters all left to travel afar, leaving behind only their lay disciple, Sun Dayou, a cross-eyed man tasked with guarding the temple. He has no interest in cultivating the Dao and thinks only of going down the mountain to play mahjong. The only one left to keep him company is his simple-minded younger brother, Sun Eryou. With the mind of a young child, Sun Eryou spends his days hugging the pillars in the main hall and calling himself a giant
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Tales of the Paranormal in Southern Shandong: The Liang Stele Hides a Malignant Spirit 鲁南诡事录：梁碑藏煞
On the old street in Fei County stands an unremarkable carpenter's shop. The owner, surnamed Shen, makes ordinary coffins and burial caskets, but takes on anything but ordinary work. As the old saying in southern Shandong goes: “A crooked ridgepole brings calamity on three generations; a gravestone against the door steals the souls of the living.”
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Tales of the Uncanny in Southern Shandong: The Cursed Corpse in the Mountain Coffin 鲁南诡事录：山棺凶尸
In the chaotic years of the Republic of China, deep in the mountains of southern Shandong, Daoist Master Yunhe lives in a temple with his disciple Shigen, while Master Jinglong dwells in a monastery across the stream with his female disciple Ahe. The monk and the Daoist often bicker, but together they guard these desolate mountains and deal with the endless evil spirits and strange happenings in the wilderness.
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Tales of the Strange in Southern Shandong: Old Rouge 鲁南诡事录：老胭脂
The opera stage in an old street in southern Shandong collapsed. Liu Hongyi was forty-seven. Her father sold her to an opera troupe when she was twelve. She performed as a leading female role for thirty-five years, acting out other people's partings and reunions onstage, while no one ever painted her eyebrows for her offstage. Layer upon layer of rouge made her a star. Only when she washed it off, layer by layer, was she Liu Hongyi again. The stage had collapsed, the troupe had disbanded, and
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Tales of the Strange in Southern Shandong: The Dragon with a Severed Tail Turns Back Three Times 鲁南诡事录：断尾龙三回头
The three deep bends of the Zhulong River in southern Shandong are said to be the traces left behind when a black dragon with a severed tail turned back three times to gaze at home. Chen Hao and Wang Wu investigate local tales by the river, uncovering the story of Zhu Fu, an ordinary man who transformed into a dragon to save the people during the Republican era, only to be punished by Heaven, lose his tail, and flee into the distance. The dragon's might was terrifying, yet its deepest longing wa
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