Biji (Chinese literature)

Biji (Chinese: 筆記) is a genre in classical Chinese literature. It roughly translates "notebook". A book of biji can contain anecdotes, quotations, random musings, philological speculations, literary criticism and indeed everything that the author deems worth recording. IT is thus a form of Commonplace book.
An example is Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang
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