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太平广记

太平廣記
Tàipíng guǎngjì
proper noun

Meanings

  1. 1 Extensive Records of the Taiping Era, the Song-dynasty collection of tales of the strange, compiled in 978

Examples

HSK 5
很多唐代小说只是因为《太平广记》才保存了下来。
Hěnduō Tángdài xiǎoshuō zhǐshì yīnwei 《 Tàipíng guǎngjì 》 cái bǎocún le xiàlai.
Many Tang stories survive only because the Extensive Records of the Taiping Era preserved them.
HSK 6
《太平广记》收了很多宋代以前的神怪故事。
《 Tàipíng guǎngjì 》 shōu le hěnduō Sòngdài yǐqián de shénguài gùshi.
Extensive Records of the Taiping Era collects many tales of gods and spirits from before the Song.

Tips

history
It was compiled under 李昉 on the orders of Emperor Taizong of Song, in the same years as the 太平御览, and named after the Taiping Xingguo era (976–984). Its 500 scrolls gather stories from about 475 earlier books, sorted by subject: immortals, ghosts, fox spirits, dreams, retribution. Many of those books are otherwise lost.
culture
Later writers mined it constantly: Yuan, Ming and Qing plays and novels took many plots from it, and it is the source cited for idioms such as 为虎作伥 'to help a villain do evil'.

Stroke Order

太 tài
平 píng
广 guǎng
记 jì