{{Short description|4th-century Chinese mythological / historical treatise compiled by Wang Jia}} {{Italic title}} '''''Shi Yi Ji''''' ({{zh |c = 拾遺記|p = ''Shíyí Jì''}}) is a Chinese mythological / historical treatise compiled by the Taoist scholar Wang Jia (died 390). The title of the work has been variously translated into English as ''Record of Heretofore Lost Works'',<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=QKI8drNuRVIC&pg=PA237 Empresses and consorts: selections from Chen Shou's Records of the Three ...]</ref> ''Researches into Lost Records'',<ref>{{citation |first = Lihui |last = Yang |first2 = Deming |last2=An |first3 = Jessica Anderson |last3 = Turner |publisher = ABC-CLIO |year = 2005 |ISBN = 1-57607-806-X |title = Handbook of Chinese mythology. |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=Wf40ofEMGzIC}}</ref> ''Record of Gleanings'',<ref>Alexander Wylie, [https://books.google.com/books?id=U-XUAAAAMAAJ Chinese researches]</ref> or ''Forgotten Tales''.<ref>{{citation |first=Jianing |last=Chen |editor-first = Jianing |editor-last = Chen |publisher = New World Press |year=1990 |ISBN = 7-80005-109-9 |title = The Core of Chinese classical fiction |url = https://books.google.com/books?ei=eWJAS4C5MoL8lQSc9pHHAQ |page=17}}</ref> thumb|A page from the volume two of ''Shi Yi Ji'' in a Ming dynasty printed edition The verb ''shiyi'' ({{lang|zh|拾遺}}) is translated by modern dictionaries as "to appropriate lost property", or, when used in book titles, "to make up for omissions". Accordingly, the work is based on "apocryphal" versions of early (legendary) Chinese history, which must have been produced during the Eastern Han dynasty. For example, ''Shi Yi Ji''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s version of the story of Yu the Great has a yellow dragon and a black turtle helping Yu to create the geographical features of China, and to name them – details not found in the ''Classic of Mountains and Seas''.<ref name="flood">{{citation |first = Mark Edward |last = Lewis |publisher = SUNY Press |year = 2006 |ISBN = 0-7914-6663-9 |title = The flood myths of early China |series = SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=6yCq-NEdKeUC |pages = 104–105, 191–192}} (especially, notes 90 and 97)</ref>
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=== Sources === {{Wikisourcelang|zh|拾遺記|Shi Yi Ji (in Chinese)}} * [http://www.hudong.com/wiki/王嘉 王嘉] on hudong.com
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