The preparation of these stories began in the Wei and Jin Dynasty (220-420), when various writers, influenced by the ideas of the Buddhist and Taoist alchemists and superstitions interested in inventing stories about gods and spirits. Some of them show their unusual imagination and learning of written language. This practice in the next period, the period of Southern and Northern Dynasties.
However, the dawn of fantasy in the true sense of the word came much later, in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, when many famous writers and poets were on the history of writing. The stories have a large selection of fabrics and yarns, that the various aspects of human nature, human relationships and social life. The form is short notes or anecdotes and stories come earlier, but the structured surfaces with interesting stories and characters live, often several thousand words. Among them are many tales whose main features of the gods, spirits, or foxes.
Mythical stories of the Song Dynasty have a strong influence of Tang-fiction, but difficult to achieve the level of Tang. One of the benefits mentioned in the novel are very large collection of records Taiping Taiping Guangji broad collection (976-983), a collection of about seven stories, before and during the first year will be published in Song Dynasty.
The stories were selected from over three hundred books, many of whom have come a long lost to us. Much of seven thousand stories of gods, goddesses, fairies and ghosts.
During the song, there were stories written in the vernacular, the Guidelines for storytellers. In the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties after the most famous works of fiction were novels in the vernacular, such as Romance of Three Kingdoms Water Margin, Pilgrimage to the West, the wise and the dream of Red Mansions.
In the early days of the Ching Dynasty, a legendary collection of stories appeared in the classic style of writing - Strange Stories of Pu Songling Studio happiness. For a time was a very popular book, praised and loved by many people. According to Ji Yun Pu, to), presided over the creation of Collection Siku Quanshu (complete work written in four stores, he wrote a book called Notes of a thatched house, jokes, rumors and stories about gods and ghosts foxes.
