《酉阳杂俎》 / Youyang Zazu
《酉阳杂俎》 / Youyang Zazu is the Tang miscellany at the center of 90.酉阳杂俎：血滴子和武则天手指上的黑毛. The episode presents [[DuanChengshi|段成式]]’s book as much more than a collection of ghost stories: it contains court rumor, botanical and animal notes, festival and funeral customs, temple and mural records, Buddhist hells, Daoist practices, strange tales, poems, and fragments of cultural memory.
The source’s main claim is that the book’s disorder is the point. Stories such as flying walnuts, skeleton women, eye-heaps, [[YeXian|《叶限》]], goose-cage scholar, heavenly throne seizure, underworld paperwork, child-slave killing, and romantic natural lore all belong to a mixed archive. That makes the book a key source for Tang Miscellany Archive Value, while also extending 唐传奇 / Tang Chuanqi, Chinese Folk Religion Layering, Story Motif Transmission, and Classic Reading Complexity.
Connections
- [[DuanChengshi|段成式]] - authorial figure.
- 90.酉阳杂俎：血滴子和武则天手指上的黑毛 - source episode.
- [[YeXian|《叶限》]] - famous tale inside the book.
- Tang Miscellany Archive Value - concept generated from the source’s reading of the book as archive.
- 唐传奇 / Tang Chuanqi, Chinese Folk Religion Layering, Underworld Bureaucracy, and Story Motif Transmission - existing frames extended by the episode.
- [[WuZetian|武则天]] and [[LuXun|鲁迅]] - figures linked through, respectively, court-rumor example and modern critical framing.