紀昀 Ji Yun (1724-1805)
Yuewei caotang biji 閱微草堂筆記
18 第十八卷 姑妄聽之四
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Topic 24 Crime, Punishment, Injustice
武強一大姓 An influential family of Wuqiang…
武強一大姓
武強一大姓，夜有劫盜，群起捕逐。盜逸去，眾合力窮追。盜奔其祖塋松柏中，林深月黑，人不敢入，盜亦不敢出。相持之際，樹內旋飈四起，砂礫亂飛，人皆瞇目不相見，盜乘間突圍得脫。眾相詫異，先靈何反助盜耶？主人夜夢其祖曰：「盜劫財不能不捕，官捕得而伏法，盜亦不能怨主人。若未得財，可勿追也。追而及，盜還鬥傷人，所失不大乎？即眾力足殪盜，盜殪則必告官，官或不諒，坐以擅殺，所失不更大乎？且我眾烏合，盜皆死黨；盜可夜夜伺我，我不能夜夜備盜也。一與為仇，隱憂方大，可不深長思乎？旋風我所為解此結也，爾又何尤焉！」主人醒而喟然曰：「吾乃知老成遠慮，勝少年盛氣多矣。」
English
An influential family of Wuqiang…
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Deutsch
Eine einflussreiche Familie in Wuqiang
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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.
Locations
Placenames have been manually extracted from the story content.