世說新語

"Shi Chi's novel masterpiece of Chinese Wei and Jin Dynasties, by Southern Song Liu Yiqing compiled. By content can be divided into the virtues, speech, literature thirty six categories, each category received a number of story book is more than a thousand, the text of varying lengths, some few lines, and some few words from visible notes demands and characteristics of the novel readily to mind ". Mainly recorded in the words and deeds of the late Eastern Han Jin - celebrities and anecdotes. On the history of the book contained are the actual figures, but their speech or story part for rumors, not entirely consistent with the historical facts. Book quite a lot of coverage to the Department of the hybrid mining all the books made. Regulation Proverbs "," Virtuous "articles contained in the individual stories of the Western Han characters taken from the" Historical Records "and" Han ". The other parts are mostly collected from the records of their predecessors. Some the story Jin - characters, such as "verbal chapter" Hutchison Xie Lingyun hole Soon the dialogue, due to these characters and Liu Yiqing earlier may be collected from the time rumors.

        "Shi describes the life and thought of the scholars, and the ruling class, reflect the thinking of the words and deeds of the Wei and Jin Dynasties literati, and the upper social aspects of life, recorded quite rich real, this description will help the reader to understand what was scholars era in which situation and socio-political environment, but also we see the so-called "Wei - Jin Pure Tan style.

        In addition, "Shi" make good use of the control, metaphor, hyperbole, depicting literary skills, not only that it retains under many the Good Thoughts famous popular, more Britannica add the infinite glory.

        In addition to the value of literature appreciation, "Shi" People deeds, literary allusions, etc. are mostly by future generations of materials, a reference to the later notes are particularly affected.

        "Shi" text, are generally very pristine prose, sometimes a few, such as spoken, and means Meaningful, Jin and Song people article is also distinctive, so always avid reader of people, of which there are many stories, became the allusions in the poems.