yuletide | 2022 Yuletide Promo Post

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Title: 虎丘石壁鬼 | Three Poems by a Ghost on a Stone Wall in Huqiu

Media: Written word

Approx length: 500 words, including head- and footnote.

What is it, in summary?: A ghost story, in which two poems appear on the wall of a Buddhist temple complaining about being dead and lamenting their grieving family. After a memorial service is held, a third poem appears on the wall, hinting at how to find the graves of it and other person buried with them.

What do you love about it?: You mean, aside from a ghost writing poems on a temple wall?

So many unanswered questions, starting with Who’s in the second grave?! Is the headnote or one of the stories in the footnote correct (or more correct)? Just how cranky did the editor get, having to decide which story was right? How did the ghost die anyway? Was it its family who criticized its poetry? Did criticizing its poetry have anything to do with its death? And why didn’t they ask the old women in the area, given they’d have all the gossip?

But mostly, it’s that second grave that haunts me.

Where to find it: It can be found in the anthology 全唐诗 | Complete Tang Poems (1705) in full here, as well as (with links to vocabulary aids) here 1 / here 2 / here 3 and here 1&2 / here 3. As far as I know, the only translations in English are my own, available here.

Content warnings: Major character death — being, yanno, poems written by a ghost about its own death and the location of its grave.