Fengchuang xiaodu 楓窗小牘

Fengchuang xiaodu 楓窗小牘 "Petty documents from the maple window", also written 楓窻小牘, is a "brush-notes"-style book (biji 筆記) written during the Song period 宋 (960-1279) by Yuan Jiong 袁絅 and Yuan Yi 袁頤 (c. 1200). Neither person is recorded in historiographic sources, and nothing is known about their lives.

The 2-juan-long book includes a lot of stories of the Northern Song 北宋 (960-1126) capital Bianjing 汴京 (modern Kaifeng 開封, Henan), with descriptions of its temples and shrines, the city wall, the canals and the residents. The information in the Fengchuang xiaodu is quite reliable, and it can serve as a valuable source for the history of social and urban development during the Song period. It was, nevertheless, by the compilers of the imperial series Siku quanshu 四庫全書 classified as a novella (xiaoshuo 小說).

The text is also to be found in the series Baoyantang miji 寶顏堂秘笈, Tang-Song congshu 唐宋叢書, Shuofu 說郛, Gujin shuobu congshu 古今說部叢書, Shuoku 說庫, Congshu jicheng chubian 叢書集成初編 and Baihai 稗海. In the latter, the author is called Baisui Yuweng 百歲寓翁.