We Live in an Era Composed of Stories Jewelry Retouching

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This book is the first encyclopedia monograph in Taiwan to systematically collect all kinds of legends and stories. It includes 100 urban legends and is accompanied by 100 exclusive illustrations. From collecting stories, tracing the context, to research and interpretation, the range of materials covers the Qing Dynasty. Local chronicles, old documents from the Japanese occupation period, as well as media databases and online forums, etc., have made great efforts. The three writers spent two years combing through and researching the origin and background, commotion and proliferation of these legends. On the one hand, they have both curious imagination and rational interest, and at the same time, they also traced the different historical time and space of the land of Taiwan for a hundred years. The collective memory of human disturbance."The whole book is a huge project, whether it's alley stories, ghost stories, rumors and whispers, ritual taboos or gossip, all of which are included, and let readers understand that we are actually living in a world shaped by legends and facts. A world made of plastic." Xia Yutong pointed to the core and said. "Taiwan Urban Legends Encyclopedia" is commendable for its detailed analysis of the origin of urban legends and what happened at that time. Xia Yutong took the story of a student with a plastic bag from Sun Yat-sen University as an example. Simply put, a female suicide incident occurred in the female dormitory, and then the dormitory was sealed and unsealed two years later. After moving in, someone would hear the sound of the plastic bag rubbing, or see the There was a red and white plastic bag in the corner that was twitching, as if someone was breathing. Xia Yutong shared in shock: "Every school seems to have a horror story about the dormitory.


The author traced it and found that in November 2005, there was indeed a female student from the school's Chinese Department who had a plastic bag over his head. He committed suicide by wearing a quilt, but unlike the story, the dormitory was not closed, and there were no plastic bags in the real event. It should be an element that the storyteller wanted to be more attractive and more visual.”Chen Xiamin believes Jewelry Retouching that "Taiwan Urban Legends Encyclopedia" is a good reminder to modern people, "We are indeed living in an era of stories, including a lot of fake news from relatives Line, not because of the increase in the number of stories. Do many of the details become terribly real? Not to mention the overwhelming variety of narratives that flood the media, email, TV reports, etc., that surround us with great complexity. I think the authors warn us through urban legends why the stories we hear are Is it like this, what is its starting point and its socio-psychological causes? In other words, reading this book will not only allow us to enjoy the story, but it will also allow us to think more about the motivation and structure behind the story.” The illustrations in "Encyclopedia of Taiwan Urban Legends" are quite beautiful, and the text is not complicated, which is very suitable for the whole family to read. Chen Xiamin read one of the passages aloud: "After the waiter left, everyone noticed that the place he entered and exited just now was not the gate at all, but the toilet."For him, this KTV ghost story is super scary.


It took place in Ximending Money Box Zhonghua New Hall. There are various versions. The main one is that the customer rang the service bell, but the waiter rushed out of the toilet to ask what he needed, or went back to the toilet. "I think the fun part of the story is the space inside the space—" Chen Xiamin's eyes flashed, "just like the wardrobe that children are most afraid of in the room. Because they can't see what's inside, there will be things inside. The idea of ​​hiding something unexpected or scary, KTV will say that it is actually the same concept.”According to the author's investigation, the building was formerly the Xinsheng Cinema. In 1966, there was a fatal fire in which more than 30 people died. After that, it was renamed Xinsheng Cinema. After that, urban legends began to occur, such as a female ghost looking in a mirror in the toilet. The guests said that if you don't take pictures again, I'm not as beautiful as me, or that someone in the last row was slapped on the shoulders, which made people feel terrified, but the tragedy was not over yet. There was another fire in 1988, and the theater had to close its doors. It was rebuilt in 2002. For the money box building, the urban legend has never been far away, persisting and deforming.