袁枚 Yuan Mei (1716-1796)
Zibuyu 子不語
1 卷一
9
Topic 4 Hands, People, Apparitions
骷髏吹氣 A Skeleton Blows Qi
骷髏吹氣
杭州閔茂嘉，好弈，其師孫姓者，常與之弈。雍正五年六月，暑甚，閔招友五人，循環而弈。孫弈畢，曰：「我倦，去東廂少睡，再來決勝。」少頃，聞東廂有叫號聲。閔與四人趨視之，見孫伏地。涎沫滿頤。飲以薑汁，蘇，問之。曰：「吾床上睡未熟，覺背間有一點冷，如胡桃大，漸至盤楪大，未幾而半席皆冷，直透心骨，未得其故。聞床下咈咈然有聲，俯視之，一骷髏張口隔席吹我，不覺駭絕，遂仆於地。骷髏竟以頭擊我。聞人來，始去。」四人咸請掘之。閔家子懼有禍，不敢掘，遂扃東廂。
English
A Skeleton Blows Qi
…coming soon…
Deutsch
Ein Skelett pustet Qi
…demnächst verfügbar…
Translation into English and German, unless otherwise indicated, by:
Übersetzungen ins Englische und Deutsche, soweit nicht anders angegeben, von:
Teresa Johnson, Ph.D.
Topics
In a corpus of ca. 3100 stories from the strange tales collections Zibuyu, Xu Zibuyu, Yuewei caotangbiji, Liaozhai zhiyi, Yetan suilu, Ershilu and Xieduo an LDA-based topic modeling algorithm was asked to identify exactly 50 topics. The algorithm calculated the probability of each of the 50 topics to appeaer in each of the stories. Below are given the Top 5 topics in decending order of their probabilities for the story above. Probabilities are indicated with percentage numbers.
40.87%
20.87%
7.86%
5.01%
4.9%
Locations
Placenames have been manually extracted from the story content.