Yijian Zhi

'Record of Yijian') is a Chinese zhiguai story collection by Hong Mai of the Southern Song dynasty.

[1] A partial English translation was published under the title of Record of the Listener.

[3] The stories are very heterogeneous: gods and ghosts, injustice and retribution, fantasy and uncanny have all been included in its storylines.

Zhou Mi of the late Song dynasty criticized the book as "greedy and acquisitive, full of eeriness.

"[4] The book is considered highly valuable by modern researchers, because it provides rare insight into the economic, social, technological, and cultural-religious conditions of the Song dynasty.

A page from a Ming dynasty Jiajing era printed edition of Yijian Zhi , from the National Library of China Publishing House
A page from another Ming printed edition of Yijian Zhi , collection of the University of Tokyo