Notes From a Far-West Cottage is a commonplace book compiled by the late 18th-century author Fu Wenhong 富文虹. He was a high official in the Feng court and is perhaps most famous for leading the compilation of the Concordance of Feng History. Unfortunately, he was exiled to various posts in the Far West for an accidental insult to the king. Notes from a Far-West Cottage was written during this period based on stories he heard in the Far West and stories he experienced himself. The book is filled with stories of varying lengths, which are often strange and other-worldly. Many are written with a moral in mind, but most are not. The stories were not originally titled, but his associates, who published the books after his death, gave them titles and numbers to make it easier to discuss them. Fu Wenhong always hoped that his loyalty to the court and the Ardian Empire would be recognized and he would be recalled to the capital, but he spent the rest of his life in the Far West.