I. Literary Genesis: Ban Ming Ban Mei’s Subversive Folklore Reimagining Emerging from the neo-zhiguai revival of late 2000s web literature, Ban Ming Ban Mei’s Moxia: The 500th Midnight Chronicle (半夏：月下灯黑，夜幕降临第五百纪事) pioneered supernatural realism by grafting Tang dynasty chuanqi aesthetics onto contemporary psychological frameworks. Unlike Pu Songling’s moralistic specters, her ghosts manifest as karmic echoes – a drowned bride’s resentment crystallizes into bioluminescent algae poisoning village […]
