庚巳編

The collection gathers a kaleidoscope of Ming‑period anecdotes, where scholars, officials and monks encounter the uncanny in everyday life. From a monk’s prophetic vision of a future emperor to a scholar’s dream that predicts his examination success, the stories fuse historical detail with subtle wonder.

Readers meet a silent monk who reads fate in bones, a farmer who discovers a newborn qilin in his cattle pen, and a soldier who hears the clatter of invisible troops marching across a river. Other vignettes recount a silver‑guard dog that protects a buried treasure, a serpentine “little dragon” fed on blood, and a ghostly apparition of a man formed from incense ash. Each episode is told with calm narration, letting the strange details speak for themselves.

The tone remains conversational, inviting listeners to linger on the moment‑to‑moment tension between belief and doubt. As the tales unfold, they reveal how ordinary people of the era interpreted omens, power and the thin line between the natural and the supernatural.