Extensive Records of the Taiping Era. Volume 398: Stones

Abstract

The paper presents the frst Russian translation of the entire text of volume 398 of the Extensive Records of the Taiping Era, a collection of supernatural and other marvelous stories, including thousands of stories covering the chronological span from Han times to the middle of the 10th century. The volume is entitled “Stones” and contains thirty-seven entries concerning various unusual stones and two entries about a walking hill-slope and singing sands. The main contributors to the text of the volume were Dai Fu (VIIIth century), author of the “Wide World of Marvels” (Guang yi ji), and Xu Xuan (Xth century), author of the “Accounts of Inspecting Spirits” (Ji shen lu).