The ''Shuo Yuan'' (), variously translated as ''Garden of Stories'', ''Garden of Persuasions'', ''Garden of Talks'', etc., is a collection of stories and anecdotes from the pre-Qin period (先秦) to the
Western Han Dynasty
The Han dynasty (, ; ) was an imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 9 AD, 25–220 AD), established by Liu Bang (Emperor Gao) and ruled by the House of Liu. The dynasty was preceded by the short-lived Qin dynasty (221–207 BC) and a war ...
. The stories were compiled and annotated by the Confucian scholar
Liu Xiang. In many cases multiple versions of the same story are included, making the book a valuable source for the study of early texts.
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Song of the Yue Boatman
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{{wikisourcelang, zh, 說苑, ''Shuo Yuan'' (Chinese source text)
《說苑 - Shuo Yuan》Chinese Text Project
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Garden of Stories 《說苑》Chinese text with matching English vocabulary at Chinese Notes
Chinese anthologies
Han dynasty literature