1, showing off anecdotes about geography and natural history, such as Dong Fangshuo's "Nerve" and Zhang Hua's "Natural History".
2. Narrating historical hearsay stories other than the official history, such as The Story of Hanwu by Ban Gu and The Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
3. Tell strange superstitious stories about ghosts and gods, such as Gan Bao's search for gods in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Cao Pi's different stories, Ge Hong's fairy story, and Tao Qian's search for gods. Pool.
There is another classification type: focusing on mountains and rivers in all directions, transplanting foreign objects and grotesque geographical objects.
The development of exotic novels;
After the Han dynasty, Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism gradually prevailed, and the preaching of superstition of ghosts and gods was widely circulated, so many books describing wonders appeared. Many works in the Six Dynasties were named after "Zhi Guai".
For example, Zhi Guai written by Zutai, Zhi Guai written by Cao Pi, Zhi Guai written by Yuekong, and Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio written by Pu Songling (the word Zhi Guai comes from Zhuangzi Xiaoyao Tour: "Those who are in Qi Xie are also strange." Modern writer Lu Xun's A Brief History of Chinese Fiction lists the first and second chapters of ghosts and gods in the Six Dynasties.
Among the existing mystery novels, there are works signed by Han people, mainly including The Story of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, The Biography of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and The Cave Story by Guo Xianzuo.
In the past, researchers thought it was due to the false entrustment of the people in the Six Dynasties, but recently some people put forward different opinions, so it is necessary to discuss it in depth. This book is suspicious for the time being.