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Title: 赠答诗 | Poems Composed in Reply - 金车美人 (弘农) | Beautiful Woman in a Golden Carriage (Hong Nong)

Media: Very short story with poetry (~450 characters/~550 words in translation)

Where to find it: Original is at https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hans/御定全唐詩_(四庫全書本)/卷866#金車美人, and my translation is at https://larryhammer.dreamwidth.org/796115.html#hongnong. There are alternate versions of this story in Extensive Records of the Taiping Era at https://ctext.org/taiping-guangji/364/xieao/ens and Xuanshi Records at https://zh.wikisource.org/zh-hans/宣室志/補遺#謝翱, neither of which AFAIK aren’t translated anywhere.

What is it, in summary?: A short romance of Tang Dynasty China where one of the couple happens to be a ghost, or at least some sort of non-human. (In Complete Tang Poetry, it’s in a chapter of poems by ghosts, but the Extensive Records of the Taiping Era version is put in tales about 妖怪, monsters/devils.) Poems are exchanged after a one-night stand that neither can forget, and after being reunited (exchanging more poems) they spend a few nights together until the ghost “vanished in both sight and sound.”

What do you love about it?: It’s enigmatic, even by the standards of ghost stories of the time. Why is Hong Nong interested in Xie Ao and his peonies? Why does she have to vanish? What’s with the golden carriage? What type of being is she anyway? Plus I love her sass when they meet: “He naturally asked who she was, and she replied, ‘You understand I’m not human, yet calmly ask such a question?’”

What sort of things are you likely to request for it?: More about the enigmatic Hong Nong of the Crooked Path. Answers to any of the above questions.

Content warnings: major character death

The other stories in that translation post (and the other ghost poem posts) may also be of interest, and certainly the lore of Chinese ghosts they reveal might be useful.