"Notes of Yuewei Thatched Cottage" mainly tells strange stories about fox ghosts and immortals in the countryside or strange anecdotes that the author has personally heard. These stories generally have the meaning of karma and retribution, encouraging good and punishing evil, and cover folklore all over China and as far away as Urumqi.

The main content of "Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes"

"Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" is divided into six volumes of "Luanyang Xiaoxia Lu", four volumes of "So I Heard", four volumes of "Huaixi Magazine", four volumes of "Guwan Tingzhi" and "Luanyang Continued Record". The whole book adopts the writing style of the Six Dynasties, using ghost stories as the theme, and uses the weirdness of monsters and foxes to satirize and admonish all kinds of ugly phenomena that were harmful to feudal morality and etiquette at that time.

Ji Yun affirmed the artistic value of ghost stories. "Yuewei Thatched Cottage Notes" intentionally imitates the simple and simple style of the Song Dynasty note novels. It also expresses deep sympathy and compassion in the style of writing. At the end of each story, it judges the ins and outs of the story, the merits of the story or whether it is reasonable,