You Ming Lu (幽明录, yōu míng lù), also known as 幽冥录 and 幽冥记 is a collection of tales of the supernatural from early medieval China traditionally attributed to Liu Yiqing (刘义庆, 403–442).
Known as zhiguai ("accounts of anomalies"),[1] these tales deal with such topics as immortals, ghosts, the afterlife, as well as Buddhist themes such as karmic retribution.
The text, originally in either 20 or 30 juan (卷) according to ancient bibliographies, was lost at some point before the Northern Song dynasty of 960 to 1127,[2] but reconstructed from citations from later works.
Like most zhiguai collections, it includes works that had appeared in previous collections, taking 11 stories from Soushen Ji (搜神记), 4 from Lieyi Zhuan (列异传), and one or two stories from a variety of other works.
[7] He is better known as the compiler of the collection Shi Shuo Xin Yu (世说新语, A New Account of Tales of the World), which is a quintessential work of the 志人 genre ("accounts of men").