Today, there are stone nods in the Ming Dynasty, drunken stone awakens, two episodes of West Lake, painting people, three moments of surprise, and so on. In the Qing Dynasty, there were Zhao Shibei, Dou Peng Gossip, West Lake Story, Twelfth Floor (also known as Shi Jue's famous sentence) and so on. In the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Wonders of Ancient and Modern, edited with the signature "Old Man Holding an urn", is a collection of novels with 40 stories, which has been widely circulated for hundreds of years. In addition to vernacular short stories, a large number of classical Chinese short stories appeared in Ming and Qing Dynasties, such as Qu You's Four Volumes of Cutting Lights, Li Changqi's Four Volumes of Cutting Lights, Zhao Bi's Effective Collection, and Ji Yun's Yuewei Caotang Notes, etc.