This County Gazetteer was not an officially compiled one.
It was a County Gazetteer compiled by officials and local gentry, an Antique Rare Edition from three hundred years ago. The man who compiled it was Daoist Ji, the Temple Keeper of the local Zuan Wangye Temple.
Daoist Ji himself had brought together many wealthy locals, pooling their money to compile this County Gazetteer.
The preface also stated that the County Chief at the time, County Chief Zong, had contributed greatly.
Later, when an official County Gazetteer was being compiled, the staff at the Culture Bureau unearthed these old rare editions while organizing their materials and placed them on the compilers' desks.
For the modern official County Gazetteer, these were undoubtedly firsthand sources.
They were quite reliable reference materials.
But because the man who compiled this book was Daoist Ji, the Temple Keeper of Zuan Wangye Temple, much of its language was exaggerated. Many events were forcibly linked to local Folk Culture and Zuan Wangye.
Thus, in the local County Gazetteer compiled fifty years ago, many of this book's stories had been placed in "Strange Tales and Unusual Records."
The name that appeared most often in that section was "Zuan."
According to their research,
Zuan Wangye was a local deity unique to this area.
He was a distinctive part of local Folk Culture.
He was a combination of the Kitchen King, the Land God, and the City God.
He presided over fire, thunder, and wind.
There were clear signs of Taoist culture being stitched together with the local traditions surrounding the Kitchen King and the Land God.
Legend portrayed Zuan Wangye as a young Daoist priest with another eye on his forehead. He held a chain in one hand, symbolizing the power to bind and deny freedom, and a sword in