Tales of Questionable Immortals 疑仙传
Paul PengTales of Questionable Immortals
Attributed to Yinfu Yujian (Wang Jian).
It was completed around the Five Dynasties or the Northern Song Dynasty.
It is recorded as three volumes in Bibliography of General Records. The current version in The Daozang is combined into one volume, classified in the Biographical Category of The Dongzhen Section.
Tales of Questionable Immortals
A short preface by the author explains that all the stories were heard casually from friends. He did not dare to label the figures as immortals directly, so he named the work Tales of Questionable Immortals.The book contains 22 mythical stories of characters including Li Yuan, the Old Medicine Seller, the Qin-Carrying Scholar, Ge Yong, Dong Fangxuan, and the Bamboo-Playing Girl, most of whom lived after the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty. The plots are similar to Tang Dynasty chuanqi fiction.
