紀昀 Ji Yun (1724-1805)
Yuewei caotang biji 閱微草堂筆記
第七卷 如是我聞一
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Topic 5 Money Matters
先叔儀南公 My late uncle Yinan…
先叔儀南公
先叔儀南公，有質庫在西城。客作陳忠，主買菜蔬。儕輩皆謂其近多餘潤，宜饗眾，忠諱無有。次日，篋鑰不啟，而所蓄錢數千，惟存九百。樓上故有狐，恒隔窗與人語。疑所為，試往扣之。果朗然應曰：「九百錢是汝僱值，分所應得，吾不敢取。其餘皆日日所乾沒，原非爾物。今日端陽，已為汝買棕若干，買酒若干，買肉若干，買雞魚及瓜菜果實各若干，並泛酒雄黃，亦為買得，皆在樓下空屋中，汝宜早烹炮。遲則天暑，恐腐敗。」啟戶視之，累累具在，無可消納，竟與眾共餐。此狐可謂惡作劇，然亦頗快意人也。
English
My late uncle Yinan
…coming soon…
Deutsch
Mein verstorbener Onkel Yinan
…in Bearbeitung…
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.
32.34%
15.52%
11.68%
8.01%
5.67%
Locations
Placenames have been manually extracted from the story content.