What are the books about the legends of ghosts and gods in China?

Shan Hai Jing is an ancient book by China, which records the strange stories in ancient times. Generally, it was written by Chu or Bashu people from the middle and late Warring States to the early Hanzhong. It is also a fantastic book. The author of this book is unknown.

The contents of Shan Hai Jing are mainly geographical knowledge in folklore, including mountains and rivers, Taoism, nationalities, products, medicines, sacrifices and witch doctors. It has preserved many famous ancient myths, legends and fables, including Kuafu's day by day, Goddess's mending the sky, Jingwei's reclamation and Dayu's harnessing the water.

2. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio

Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese by Pu Songling, a novelist of China in the Qing Dynasty.

They either exposed the darkness of feudal rule, attacked the decay of imperial examination system, or resisted the shackles of feudal ethics, and had rich and profound ideological content. The works describing the theme of love are the largest in the book, showing a strong anti-feudal ethical code spirit. Some of these works show the author's ideal love through the love between foxes and people.

3. Records of mysterious events

A collection of Tang legendary novels written by Niu Senguru. The original ten volumes, one volume today.

The theme of this book mostly involves immortal Taoism, reincarnation of destiny, ghosts and gods, etc. This is related to the author's deep belief in Taoism and his love for exotic things. In art, the condensed story is novel, euphemistic and long, which gradually increases the detailed description and dialogue between the characters, and has obvious development compared with the previous strange novels.

4 "Woods Yu"

Collection of short stories in classical Chinese by Yuan Mei, a writer in Qing Dynasty. The Meridian Rain was written in the fifty-third year of Qianlong (1788), and later some successive chapters were merged into a sequel.

Woods is full of bizarre stories about reincarnation, ghosts killing them and ghosts acting like ghosts. All kinds of images of gods and ghosts can be seen everywhere, and there are few stories about town gods, land, ghosts, slaves, etc., which do not involve ghosts and gods at all, and more advocate the superstitious thought of "karma" and fatalism. It is with these images and grotesque stories that Yuan Mei shows readers a complete underworld society.

5. "Looking for God"

A collection of novels recording magical and weird stories in ancient folklore, written by Gan Bao, a historian in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.

The book Searching for the Gods is very rich in content, including divination theology, changes of immortals, immortals and monsters, dreams of ghosts and gods, and communication love between ghosts and gods. Among them, a considerable number of historical myths and legends handed down from the Western Han Dynasty and folk stories in the Wei and Jin Dynasties have been preserved, which are beautiful and touching and deeply loved by people.