干宝 / Gan Bao

干宝 / Gan Bao is the authorial figure attached to [[SouShenJi|《搜神记》]] in 06.搜神记： 二十四孝这口锅，干宝不背. The episode presents him as a historian-like collector who took ghosts, omens, and divine signs seriously, while also preserving material that later readers can approach as folklore, literature, religious evidence, and strange natural observation.

The page is source-scoped. Its point is not a full biography, but the episode’s claim that “干宝不背” the whole burden of later [[TwentyFourFilialExemplars|《二十四孝》]] moralization. The source argues that he recorded filial wonders beside stories of resistance, revenge, nonhuman sympathy, wrongful punishment, and jealous authority, so his collection should not be reduced to the later didactic afterlife of selected tales.

Connections

• [[SouShenJi|《搜神记》]] - text associated with Gan Bao in the source.
• Zhiguai Archive Value - reading frame for his collection work.
• Filial Piety Story Afterlife - source’s claim about later moralization.
• Strange Tale Moral Pluralism - why the episode resists treating his book as one doctrine.
• Classic Reading Complexity - broader wiki guardrail for not flattening old texts.