Digitizing the Strange

袁枚 Yuan Mei (1716-1796)

Zibuyu 子不語

22 卷二十二

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Topic 4 Hands, People, Apparitions

殭尸抱韋馱

宿州李九者,販布為生。路過霍山,天晚,店客滿矣,不得已,宿佛廟中。漏下兩鼓,睡已熟,夢韋馱神撫其背曰:「急起,急起,大難至矣!躲我身後,可以救你。」李驚醒,踉蹌而起。見床後厝棺砉然有聲,走出一屍,遍身白毛,如反穿銀鼠套者,面上皆滿,兩眼深黑,中有綠眼,光閃閃然,直來撲李。李奔上佛櫃,躲韋馱神背後。僵屍伸兩臂抱韋馱神而口咬之,嗒嗒有聲。李大呼,群僧皆起,持棍點火把來。僵屍逃入棺中,棺合如故。

次日,見韋馱神被僵屍損壞,所持杵折為三段,方知僵屍力猛如此。群僧報官,焚其棺。李感韋馱之恩,為塑像妝金焉。

English

Stiff Corpse Embraces Wei Tuo

…coming soon…

Deutsch

Eine starre Leiche umarmt Wei Tuo

…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.

39.57%

Topic 4 Hands, People, Apparitions

10.08%

Topic 9 Coffin, Corpse, Burial

7.04%

Topic 1 Zibuyu Speech Patterns

6.91%

Topic 41 Unnamed

5.69%

Topic 34 Gods, Temple, Guandi

Locations

Placenames have been manually extracted from the story content.

霍山 Huoshan
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