Reports on many different wonderful and strange things, reaching from fairies, Daoist magicians, monks, magic spells and charms, to wonderful plants and animals to signs of Heaven, like thunderbolts, earthquake and floods. Other reports of strange things (guaiji 怪記) can be found in the Liexianzhuan, Shanhaijing, Shenxianzhuan, and Soushenji.	Chapters of the Taiping guangji 1.-55.神仙 shenxian Male Fairies 1-55 56.-70.女仙 nüxian Female Fairies 1-15 71.-75.道術 daoshu Daoist Masters 1-5 76.-80.方士 fangshi Magicians 1-5 81.-86.異人 yiren Extraordinary People 1-6 87.-98.異僧 yiseng Extraordinary Monks 1-12 99.-101.釋證 shizheng Buddhist 1-3 102.-134.報應 baoying 1-33 135.-145. zhengying 征應 (帝王休證, 人臣休證, 邦國啟證, and 人臣啟證) 1-11 146.-160. dingshu 定數 (with hunyin 婚姻) 1-15 161.-162. 感應 ganying 1-2 163.讖應 chenying 164.名賢 mingxian (with fengjian 諷諫) , 165.廉儉 lianjian (with linse 吝嗇) , 166.-168.氣義 qiyi 1-3 169.-170.知人 zhiren 1-2 171.-172.精察 jingcha 1-2 173.-174.俊辯 junbian 1-2 175.幼敏 youmin 176.-177.器量 qiliang 1-2 178.-184.貢舉 gongju (with daizu 代族) 1-7 185.-186.銓選 quanxuan 1-2 187.職官 zhiguan 188.權倖 quanxing 189.-190.將帥 jiangshuai (with zajuezhi 雜譎智) 1-2 191.-192.驍勇 xiaoyong 1-2 193.-196.豪俠 haoxia 1-4 197.博物 bowu 198.-200.文章 wenzhang 1-3 201.才名 caiming (with 好尚), 202.儒行 ruxing (with lingcai 怜才,and gaoyi 高逸) 203.-205.樂 yue 1-3 206.-209.書 shu 1-4, 210.-214.畫 hua 1-5 215.算術 suanshu 216.-217.卜筮 bushi 1-2 218.-220.醫 yi 1-3 221.-224.相 xiang 1-4 225.-227. jiqiao 伎巧 (with jueyi 絕藝) 1-3 228.博戲 boxi 229.-232.器玩 qiwan 1-4 233.酒 jiu (with jiuliang 酒量 and shijiu 嗜酒) 234.食 shi (with nengshi 能食 and feishi 菲食) 235.交友 jiaoyou 236.-237.奢侈 shechi 1-2 238.詭詐 guizha 239.-241.諂佞 channing 1-3 242.謬誤 miuwu (with yiwang 遺忘) 243.治生 zhisheng (with tan 貪) 244.褊急 bianji 245.-252.詼諧 huixie 1-8 253.-257. chaoqiao 嘲誚 1-5 258.-262. chibi 嗤鄙 1-5 263.-264.無賴 wulai 1-2 265.-266.輕薄 qingbao 1-2 267.-269.酷暴 kubao 1-3 270.-273. furen 婦人 (with jinü 妓女) 1-4 274.情感 qinggan 275.童僕 tongpu (with nubi 奴婢) 276.-282.夢 meng (= guishen I 鬼神) 1-7 283.巫 wu (with yanzhou 厭咒) 284.-287.幻術 huanshu 1-4 288.-290.妖妄 yaowang 1-3 291.-315.神 shen (with yinci 淫祠) 1-25 316.-355.鬼 gui 1-40 356.-357.夜叉 yecha 1-2 358.神魂 shenhun 359.-367.妖怪 yaoguai (with renyao 人妖) 1-9 368.-373.精怪 jingguai 1-6 374.靈異 lingyi 375.-386.再生 zaisheng 1-12 387.-388.悟前生 wuqiansheng 1-2 389.-390.冢墓 zhongmu 1-2 391.-392.銘記 mingji 1-2 393.-395.雷 lei 1-3 396.雨 yu (with fenghong 風虹) 397.山 shan (with qi 溪) 398.石 shi (with posha 坡沙) 399.水 shui (with jing 井) 400.-405.寶 bao (with jinyu 金玉, qian 錢 and qiwu 奇物) 1-6 406.-417.草木 caomu (with wenlimu 文理木, wugu 五穀, and cha 茶) 1-12 418.-425.龍 long 1-8 426.-4...虎 hu 1-.. 464.-476.畜獸 chushou 1-13 447.-455.狐 hu 1-9 456.-459.蛇 she 1-4 460.-463.禽鳥 qinniao 1-4 464.-472.水族 shuizu 1-9 (mit gui 龜) 473.-476.昆虫s kunchong 1-4
	Exemplarious translation: 11.＜神仙＞11.＜泰山老父＞ 泰山老父者，莫知姓字。漢武帝東巡狩，見老翁鋤於道旁。頭上白光高數尺。怪而問之。 老人狀如五十許人，面有童子之色，肌膚光華，不與俗同。帝問有何道術。對曰：「臣年八十五時，衰老垂死，頭白齒落。遇有道者，教臣絕穀，但服術飲水。并作神枕，枕中有三十二物。其三十二物中，有二十四物以當二十四氣，八毒以應八風。 臣行之，轉老為少，黑髮更生，齒落復出，日行三百里。臣今一百八十歲矣。」帝受其方，賜玉帛。老父後入岱山中。每十年五年，時還鄉里。三百餘年，乃不復還。 Fairies: The Old Father from Taishan Mountain (also recorded in Ge Hong's 葛洪 (d. 343) Shenxianzhuan 神仙傳 "Biographies of Fairies") Nobody knows the real name of the Old Father from Taishan Mountain. When emperor Han Wudi the Martial (r. 140-87 BC) came along during an hunting travel, he saw an old man working with a hoe besides the way. Over his head was a white gleam, several feet high. The emperor asked what wonderful event that could be. When the old man looked up, he seemed to be some fifty years old, but his face was fresh like that of a small boy, with a smooth and sleek skin. Again, the emperor asked and wanted to know what magic the old man used to look like this. The man said: "I am eighty-five years old, I am already weak and I will die soon, my hair is white and I have lost all my teeth. Once I met somebody experienced with magic, and he told me, to give up eating grain. I should better eat podophyllum and drink pure water. And he made me a magic pillar, containing thirty-two things. Twenty-four of these things corresponded with the Twenty-four Vapours, and the other eight poisons corresponded to the Eight Diseases. Following his advices, my aging became slower, black hair came out again, my teeth grow once more, and I was able to walk three hundred miles a day. I am now one hundred and eighty years old." The emperor got his receipt and bestowed him many jade and silk. Later, the old man went into the Taishan (Daishan) mountains. Every five or ten years, he came back to his home village, but more than three hundred years later, he did never come back again. Translated by Ulrich Theobald.