Qixieji 齊諧記

Qixieji 齊諧記 "On universal harmony" is an early collection of stories compiled during the Liu-Song period 劉宋 (420-479) by Dongyang Wuyi 東陽無疑, who was a gentleman cavalier attendant (sanji shilang 散騎骑侍郎).

The book was originally 7 juan long. The title goes back to the Daoist book Zhuangzi 莊子, where it is said that Qixieji were "records of marvels" (zhi guai zhe 志怪者). Dongyang's book includes stories of strange or supernatural events and is an early example of a whole genre of novellas that came into being during the Southern dynasties period 南朝 (420~589).

The most significant part of the stories concerns Buddhist beliefs or superstitions, in which Buddhism is mainly seen as a religion of healers, as it was the case in contemporary Daoism. In some stories, the pwoer of deities is also doubted, as in the account of the temple on Mt. Guobu 國步山.

The book was already lost during the Tang period 唐 (618-907) and has only survived in fragments collected by the Qing-period 清 (1644-1911) scholar Ma Guohan 馬國翰 (1794-1857) in his series Yuhan shanfang jiyi shu 玉函山房輯佚書. The Qixieji is also to be found in Lu Xun's 魯迅 (1881-1936) collection Gu xiaoshuo gouchen 古小說鉤沉.