Searching for the Gods is a collection of novels that records magical and weird stories in ancient folklore. The writer is Gan Bao, a historian in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. This book was originally scattered and compiled by later generations, with a total of 20 volumes and 454 stories.
The protagonists are ghosts, monsters, immortals, and mixed with Buddhism and Taoism. Most of them are strange things of immortals, and some of them belong to folklore. Most of them are short in length, simple in plot, fantastic in imagination and full of romanticism, which has a far-reaching influence on later generations.
Among them, Han Ping and his wife, Wu Wang's little daughter, etc. It exposes the cruelty of the ruling class and praises the struggle of the rebels, which is often quoted by later generations.
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The highest achievement of mystery novels should be reflected in the search for gods. Different from geography and natural history works, it mainly collects ghost stories, including some anecdotes, which are directly influenced by Mu He's biography of Shan Hai Jing. Its author is Gan Bao, a famous historian in the early years of Eastern Jin Dynasty. Gan Bao was born in Xincai (now Henan).
Born in a famous family, he is diligent in learning and reads widely. I wrote 20 volumes of Golden Rooster, praising history. According to Biography of the Book of Jin, it was because he felt the magical experience of his father's handmaiden and brother coming back from the dead that he wrote down the search for God. It brings together the changes of supernatural characters in ancient and modern immortals. On the one hand, "Kao Xian aims to record books" and on the other hand, "gathering the legacy of that time and fleeing", which has been widely studied and has been formed for decades.
Thirty volumes of the original book, especially in the Tang and Song Dynasties, were probably lost in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. This book consists of 20 volumes, compiled by Hu Yinglin, a scholar in Ming Dynasty, according to Fa Yuan, Tai Ping Guang Ji and Tai Lan.
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