#278 - Strange Tales IX.2: To Mortal Strife

The History of China

Chris Stewart

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🗓️ 25 October 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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A hefty second helping of weird, whimsical, wondrous, and wicked tales of the supernatural from the Zhou, Han, Liu Song, Yuan, and Qing Dynasties, for evenings when leaves quake from branches & the walls between the worlds grows thin. 0:00:00 - "Finishing Jiao's Poem" By: The One Within the Mound (Tr. Larry Hammer & Chris Stewart). 0:02:51 - "The Taoist Monk" Liaozhai Zhiyi, vol. 3. 0:09:57 - "A Report From the Qin Imperial Envoy At Xicheng, Gan Zong" Baopuzi. 0:11:33 - "The Ghoul" Shuyiji. 0:14:23 - "The Devil's Advocate" Liaozhai zhiyi, vol. 3. 0:21:57 - "REPORT: Flock of Bears Goes Rogue" Xu Yijian zhi. 0:23:13 - "The Face-Stealer" Shuyiji. 0:26:39 - "Manfox/Foxman" Liaozhai zhiyi, vol. 10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:44.0	Episode 278, Strange Tales 9.
0:51.0	2.2, 2.
0:53.4	Two mortal strife.
0:59.2	Jao of Jung was a scholar from Hoobey, While traveling between the states of Chen and
1:04.8	Thai, he passed a burial mound upon which there were two bamboo poles,
1:09.4	brightly green and lovely. He began to recite a poem.
1:14.0	Don Shan Yanju, Feng Chui Chang Yanjou.
1:20.0	Upon this tomb, bamboo poles bend, blown air gracefully by the wind.
1:27.5	Yet after two lines he found he could not recall the rest. All of a sudden, from within the Barrow mound itself came an unearthly
1:37.6	voice, completing the couplets. Shai Hoi-ho by Nyan-run, Tang-Mian-Bu-Jis-Bu-Chis-I-Sao.
1:52.2	Within lies one in long repose, to mortal strife, all awareness closed.
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