本书是著名作家冯骥才创作的小说集。作品的风格接近古典传奇色彩，取话本文学旨趣。书中所讲之事，又多以清末民初天津市井生活为背景，每篇专讲一个传奇人物生平事迹，素材均收集于长期流传津门的民间传说，人物之奇特闻所未闻，故事之精妙叹为观止。(This book is a collection of novels created by Feng Jicai, a famous Chinese writer. The works included in this book have a touch of classic legend and blend the purports of story-telling scripts (folk) literature. The stories are mostly set in the context of urban life in Tianjin in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic period, with each piece featuring the life anecdotes of one legendary figure based on folklores passed down long ago in that area. The legends are eye-opening stories people've hardly heard of, and told with stunning, spectacular subtlety and exquisiteness. )