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Joel Martinsen's avatar

The recension in 新輯搜神後記 has Zhang Gou traveling out to work by boat and keeping his food in the rushes 菰蘆, and then hiding there later to keep watch. The cite is to 開元占經 — or one variant, at any rate; the version on ctext isn’t quite as verbose. 新輯 also quotes the voice as saying “人砍傷某甲”, and suggests the line in the popular edition is a garbling of that with the 太平廣記 text, which has “砍傷我矣”.

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Robert Stern's avatar

You sir are the Lord of thunder! I think the animist gods for all the different creatures and things of nature was so much more sophisticated than our monotheism. It's much closer to reality, if there are in fact gods, since we all know there are flood dragons.

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