What kind of book is Strange Tales ?

It's the ** that writes about the ghost fox.

The genre of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" is a collection of short stories in literary language, and the genre of the four famous works is chapter back.

<>Strange Tales of Liaozhai" is a collection of short stories, which integrates the "Zhiwei", "Legend" and "Brother Liquid Love" in ancient times, absorbs the advantages of the ancient vernacular, and forms a unique concise and elegant literary style.

Liao Zhai Zhi Wei is a collection of short stories in the Qing Dynasty, referred to as "Liao Zhai", commonly known as "The Legend of the Ghost Fox", with a total of 491 short stories. The subject matter is very wide and the content is extremely rich; Most of the works made a powerful critique of the corruption and darkness of the society at that time through the technique of talking about foxes and ghosts and envying things, exposing social contradictions to a certain extent, and expressing the wishes of the people.

The Four Great Masterpieces, also known as the Four Great Ones, refer to the four classical Chinese chapters of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "Water Margin" and "Dream of Red Mansions", which are rare works in Chinese literature. "Dream of Red Mansions" Genre: **; "Water Margin" Genre:

Chapter Hui Body**; "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" Genre: Long Chapter Hui Historical Romance**; "Journey to the West" Genre: Classical Mythology**.

Background of the creation of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai":

Pu Songling was born in a scholarly family, and in his early years, he also wanted to use the imperial examination to enter the office, but unfortunately he failed many times and could only make a living by teaching. Since he was a child, he has been interested in folk stories of ghosts and gods.

It is said that Pu Songling once opened a teahouse in front of his house in order to collect materials, and people who came to drink tea could use a story instead of tea money. With the help of this method, Pu Songling collected a large number of bizarre stories, and after sorting and processing, he included them in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai".

According to the Qing Dynasty's notes "Three Borrowed Lu Pen Talks", Pu Songling spread a mat on the side of the avenue every morning, and set up cigarettes and tea, and sat and waited for passers-by to collect anecdotes. Whenever I hear something, I go home and polish it.

In the first year of Kangxi (1662), Pu Songling began to write fox ghost stories when he was 22 years old. In the spring of the eighteenth year of Kangxi, the 40-year-old Pu Songling collected the manuscript into a book for the first time, called "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", with a preface by Nan Gaoheng. Since then, it has been added repeatedly.

Until around the 239th year of Kangxi and the 46th year of Kangxi, there were still a small number of supplements to the book. The writing of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" lasted more than 40 years and devoted most of Pu Songling's energy to it.

"Strange Tales" is a collection of short stories with a unique ideological and artistic style. Most of them talk about foxes and ghosts in the form of fantasy, but the content is deeply rooted in the soil of real life, tortuously reflects the social contradictions of the era in which Pu Songling lives and the people's ideological aspirations, and melts into the writer's unique feelings and understanding of life. Pu Songling said in "Liao Zhai Zizhi":

Set the armpit as a fur, and continue the record of the underworld in vain; The pen is filled with white, and it only becomes a book of loneliness and indignation: it is sad enough to sustenance like this! In this ** episode, the author is pinning his deep loneliness and anger from real life.

Therefore, we should not just read the bizarre and interesting story of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai" and read it as a book to dispel sorrow and relieve boredom, but should deeply experience the love and hate, sorrow and anger and joy that the author places in it, as well as the real life and profound historical content that produce these thoughts and feelings. Because "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" is a collection of short stories that has gone through a long period of time to complete, the stories are different, the author's ideological understanding has developed and changed before and after, and the author's world view itself is contradictory, so the ideological content of the book is uneven and complex. However, on the whole, more than half of the works are excellent, and the main tendency is progressive, which truly reveals the number of spears and reputations in real life, and reflects the ideals, aspirations, and demands of the people.

Singing the praises of truth, goodness, and beauty in life, and attacking the false, evil, and ugliness is Pu Songling's general artistic pursuit of creating "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", and it is also the most prominent ideological feature of this short story collection.