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Bowuzhi (博物志; "Records of
Diverse Matters") by
Zhang Hua (c. 290 CE) was a
compendium of
Chinese stories about natural wonders and
marvelous phenomena...
- writer, poet, and
politician Zhang Hua of the Jin
dynasty wrote in his book
Bowuzhi how
people in Zigong, Sichuan,
excavated natural gas and used it to boil...
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fenshen and
fenxing in the 3rd and 4th
centuries CE.
Zhang Hua's c. 290
Bowuzhi "Records of
Diverse Matters"
names sixteen historical fangshi brought together...
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bring forth is pearls.
Similar p****ages
appear in
other texts such as the
Bowuzhi (博物志, "Treatise of
Manifold " c. 290 CE) as "weep[ing]
tears that became...
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suggested that ****jiao
should be
identified as
jiaocuo 蛟錯
described in the
Bowuzhi 博物志, and this
jiaocuo in turn is
considered to be a type of shark. As in...
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important resource for the
history of botany, for instance,
Zhang Hua's c. 290
Bowuzhi is the
earliest record of the
psilocybin mushroom xiàojùn 笑菌 (lit. "laughing...
- of Cao Cao's
other interests and
hobbies were
recorded in
Zhang Hua's
Bowuzhi,
which mentioned that he enjo**** calligraphy,
music and weiqi. His proficiency...
- came to be used for fiction.
Early examples of
narrative classics include Bowuzhi, A New
Account of the
Tales of the World,
Soushen Ji,
Wenyuan Yinghua,...
- a
dragon (Shiji) and Yu
riding a
carriage drawn by two
flying dragons (
Bowuzhi). Carr
compares pairs of
Yinglong with
motifs on
Chinese bronzes showing...
- Chen Shou:
Records of
Three Kingdoms (三國志, Sānguó Zhì)
Zhang Hua: 博物志,
Bowuzhi Xiang'er: 老子想爾注, Lǎozi Xiǎng'ěr Zhù
Lieyi Zhuan: 列異傳, Arra****
Marvels Lu...
