Li Feng-mao, a research fellow at Academia Sinica's Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, divides Chinese stories of fairyland into many categories such as watching chess, food and clothing, hermits, love affairs between mortals and immortals, and so on.
中研院文哲所研究員李豐楙整理中國仙境文學，也將之歸納為觀棋、服食、人神戀、隱逸等多種類型。