张华 (232–300), a scholar and minister of the Western Jin, filled its ten scrolls with mountains and rivers, foreign peoples, strange animals and plants, the arts of magicians, and legends of gods and immortals. One story tells of a man who sails a raft up the Milky Way and sees a herdsman leading his ox to drink, an early trace of the legend of
牛郎织女, the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl.
