酉阳杂俎 (9 世纪)

《酉阳杂俎（zǔ）》是唐朝博物学家段成式于850年左右所写的一部笔记小说集，共三十卷，最后十卷为续集。其中介绍了许多汉唐以来的生活状态、思想状况等，为后来社会研究关中历史提供了史料，也是了解唐代中西方交流的重要文献。

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酉阳即小酉山（在今湖南沅陵），相传山下有石穴，洞内藏书千卷。书名取义于梁元帝“访酉阳之逸典”语。篇目为：忠志、礼异、天咫、玉格、壶史、贝编、境异、喜兆、祸兆、物革、诡习、怪术、艺绝、器奇、乐、酒食、医、黥、雷、梦、事感、盗侠、物异、广知、语资、冥迹、尸穸、诺皋记、广动植、贬误、寺塔记等。从内容看，天文地理，怪力乱神，草木虫鱼，无所不包。作者自序说：“固役而不耻者，抑志怪小说之书也。”例如：《酉阳杂俎》卷十六有探矿原理：“山上有葱，下有银；山上有薤，下有金；山上有姜，下有铜锡；山上有宝玉，木旁枝皆下垂。”比十八世纪德国的采矿化学家约翰·弗里德里希·汉克尔在《含铅植物》中记载早了九个世纪。

《酉阳杂俎》的续集《支诺皋上》篇章《叶限》，故事出自家仆李士元之口，被认为是灰姑娘最早的来源之一。

全书内容多涉仙妖鬼怪。胡应麟说：“独唐段氏《酉阳杂俎》最为迥出，……允谓奇之又奇者也。”《四库全书总目》评说：“多诡怪不经之谈，荒渺无稽之物，而遗文秘籍，亦往往错出其中，故论者虽病其浮夸，而不能不相征引”。这里纪昀可能严重忽略了其中的民俗意义，以及庶民信仰的时代变迁。

鲁迅评语：“或录秘书，或叙异事，仙佛人鬼，以至动植，弥不载毕，以类相聚，有如类书，虽源或出于张华《博物志》，而在唐时，则犹独创之作”。

The Miscellaneous Morsels from Youyang (Chinese: 酉陽雜俎) is a book written by Duan Chengshi in the 9th century, during the Tang Dynasty. It focuses on miscellany of Chinese and foreign legends and hearsay, reports on natural phenomena, short anecdotes, and tales of the wondrous and mundane, as well as notes on such topics as medicinal herbs and tattoos.

Youyang refers to the south slope of Mount You, a small hill located in what is now Huaihua, Hunan. The book is divided into 30 volumes, containing unusually varied content in over thirteen hundred entries that describe the world that Duan Chengshi heard about, read of, or personally observed. Several tales from the volume are quoted in the Taiping Guangji.

The Ye Xian, a story similar to the fairy tale Cinderella, appears in Chapter 21. The story was allegedly told by Duan's servant Li Shiyuan, a native of what is now Nanning. It is set during the late 3rd century BC. The exact location is unknown, but the most likely candidate is Guangxi, where the shoe eventually found its way to a king from an island.