And then there is Li Ruzhen's Jinghua Yuan, written in the Daoguang reign of the Qing dynasty, which recounts the journey of the fictitious main character, Official Tang, to lands across the sea to search out the One-Hundred Flowers Sage. But here the story functions as a parable with a satirical objective.
至於清道光李汝珍所著，假借故事主角唐秀才到海外尋訪百花仙子的《鏡花緣》，已經是以小說寓意，目的在嘲諷當道。