The non-human creatures in Xuanguai Lu can be divided into three categories:the immortals,the monsters,the ghosts,and all of them reflected the author's different writing concepts.The immortals stories mostly described the transcendence of the immortals in thought,behavior,living environment,and at the same time it implied the author's observation and transcendence of his own predicament.The monsters stories focused on the harmonious and the antagoni-stic relationships between monsters and human beings.The harmonious relations-hip between monsters and human beings mainly involved the theme of gratitude and chance encounter,while the antagonistic relationship were divided into two endings:monsters were punished and human beings were retaliated.The monsters stories reflected the author's cognition and respect for everything in nature under the concept of equality.The ghosts stories,under the construction of the netherworld,contained the author's admonition to the human beings and the disclosure and criticism of the social reality.