page_title: Hong Mai
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Hong Mai / Works
caption_attribution_description: 中文: 《十萬卷樓叢書》本 夷堅志, 東京東洋文庫藏
context_page_description: Hong Mai, courtesy name Jinglu, art name Yechu and Rongzhai, was a Chinese statesman, Confucian scholar and writer during the Southern Song dynasty.
  He was the author of Yijianzhi and Rongzhai Suibi.
context_section_description: Yijianzhi was one of Hong's major contribution to the Chinese Yaoguai mythology tradition that dates back to the time of Gan Bao. The record spoke widely about incidents that are mythical, fantastic, and supernatural during Song dynasty. More importantly, the record depicts the daily life of Song dynasty Chinese in detail which otherwise would remain unknown to modern time researchers.
  Hong Mai was an advocate of Chinese colloquial fiction writing. He elevated the writing of fiction to the same level of poetry. Especially, Hong praised the Tang dynasty fiction writers for their touching renditions of common people's day-to-day emotions.
  In 1180, Hong Mai initiated his project of compiling ten thousand Tang dynasty poems. The compiling was completed in the year of 1190. The publication is known as "Ten thousand quatrains of Tang".
caption: The Yijianzhi, collection of the Tōyō Bunko, Tokyo
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