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The Han Yu Demon Texts

韓愈驅鬼諸文

Five texts by Han Yu (768–824) in which something is named, charged, and sent away — an owl, a river full of crocodiles, a fever, a household of poverties, and a writing brush that lived a whole official career. Narrated by the brush.

  1. Preface
  2. One — The Life of a Brush毛穎傳
  3. Two — The Owl射訓狐
  4. Three — The Crocodiles祭鱷魚文
  5. Four — The Fever譴瘧鬼
  6. Five — The Poverties送窮文
  7. A Jar of Brushes

The texts — the complete Chinese of all five, with a working English beside it.

Download the whole book as a PDF (53 pages, July 2026).

The workbook — the five texts set out to be worked through by hand, with vocabulary, grammar notes and space to translate (92 pages, for printing).