A classic Chinese novel from the early Qing Dynasty, consisting of 100 chapters, which uses vivid local dialect to tell a story of karmic retribution across two lifetimes; it is also known as [[姻缘传|姻緣傳|yin1 yuan2 zhuan4]] or [[恶姻缘|惡姻緣|e4 yin1 yuan2]]

Title of a collection of forty vernacular short stories published in 1627 by Ming dynasty author [[冯梦龙|馮夢龍|feng2 meng4 long2]]; it is part of the Three Words series together with [[喻世明言|喻世明言|yu4 shi4 ming2 yan2]] and [[警世通言|警世通言|jing3 shi4 tong1 yan2]]