Youyang Zazu Supernatural Notices
- Date of account
- Ninth century, Tang dynasty
- Location
- China
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Duan Chengshi’s Youyang Zazu is a Tang-period miscellany with material on strange creatures, apparitions, dreams, marvels, customs and hearsay. Its anecdotal form makes it relevant to comparison with later ghost-report collections, especially regarding source attribution and the boundary between local observation, literary borrowing and entertainment. The work’s broad geographic and thematic range also preserves information about cultural transmission across China and beyond. Individual notices require philological checking because modern translations differ and the compilation often gives limited provenance.
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