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Jun Yue
1766–1814
A Qing-dynasty storyteller best remembered for strange tales, he blended folklore, fantasy, and everyday life in ways that still feel lively and surprising. His best-known work, Er shi lu, gathers nearly two hundred marvel-filled stories that hint at the fears, humor, and beliefs of his time.
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耳食錄
by Jun Yue
About the author
Yue Jun (1766–1814), also written as Jun Yue, was a Qing-dynasty Chinese writer from what is now Jinxi in Jiangxi province. Sources describe him as a gifted student who was recommended to the Imperial Academy in 1789 and later served as a tutor in a princely household before returning home after passing the provincial examination in 1801.
He is best known for Er shi lu (Record of Things Heard), a collection of classical Chinese tales of the strange completed in 1794. The work combines ghost stories, anecdotes, and moral observation, moving easily between the supernatural and ordinary life.
Although biographical details are limited and some sources differ on the year of his death, Yue Jun is remembered as an important literary voice of the Qing period. His fiction stands out for its imaginative storytelling and for the way it preserves popular beliefs and social feeling from late imperial China.