What is Strange Tales 2 about? How many parts are there?

Liao Zhai 2 is based on a love story. It is composed of "Infant Ning", "Rouge", "Righteous Dog", "Pink Butterfly", "Lotus Fragrance" and "Rakshasa Sea City". It brings together stars from across the Taiwan Strait, including Liu Xuehua, Chen Haomin, Ye Xuan (Sun Yaowei, Luo Dahua, etc.).

Main actors: Han Xue as Rouge Yan Kuan as E Zichuan.

Li Li as Yan Xia and Luo Dahua as Su Jielang.

Gong Fangmin as E Taihang and Chen Jikuang as Ye Xing.

Haha as steamed buns and Hou Kangsheng as dumplings.

Chen Haomin as He Tianquan and Lin Jing as Jia Shuangshuang.

Shi Yu as Jia De and Zhong Shuhui as Liu Fang.

Wang Li as Li Ang and Han Mudun as Yang Jian.

From the perspective of subject matter, the works in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" can be roughly divided into the following five categories-

The first category is to reflect the darkness of society, expose and criticize the crimes of the feudal ruling class in oppressing and mutilating the people. Such as "Promoting Weaving", "Red Jade", "Dream Wolf", "Plum Girl", "Continuation of Huangliang", "Dou's", etc.;

The second category: opposing feudal marriage, criticizing feudal etiquette, praising the innocent love of young men and women and fighting for freedom and happiness. Such as "Infant Ning", "Qingfeng", "A Xiu", "Liancheng", "Qing'e", "Crow's Head", "Ruiyun", etc.;

The third category: exposing and criticizing the corruption and various malpractices of the imperial examination system. Such as "Ye Sheng", "Yu to Evil", "Examination of Cheating Division", "Jia Fengpheasant", "Si Wenlang", "Wang Zi'an", "Three Lives", etc.;

Category 4: Praise the spirit of resistance and struggle of the oppressed people. Such as "Shang Sanguan", "Xi Fangping", "Xiang Gao", etc.;

The fifth category: summarize the lessons and lessons of life, educate people to be honest, helpful, hard-working, know and change, etc., with moral admonition significance. Such as "Planting Pears", "Painted Skin", "Laoshan Taoist", "Pupil Language", "Wolf" (three) and so on.

In addition, the stories in this book remind people to abandon evil and follow good, to be sarcastic, greedy, and cruel, to be kind to all beings, and to treat others with integrity.

Strange Tales from Liao Zhai is also mixed with some backward elements in the progressive ideological content, such as feudal ethics and morality, superstition of ghosts and gods, and vulgar tendencies in the pursuit of fame and fortune, etc., which we should pay attention to analysis and criticism when reading.

"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 strange and interesting stories of "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" and read it as a book to dispel sorrow and boredom, but should deeply experience the love and hate, grief and joy that the author inhabits 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 contradictions of 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.

From the perspective of subject matter, the works in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" can be roughly divided into the following five categories-

The first category is works that reflect the darkness of society and expose and criticize the crimes of the feudal ruling class in oppressing and mutilating the people, such as "Promoting Weaving", "Red Jade", "Dream Wolf", "Plum Girl", "Continuation of Huangliang", "Dou's", etc.;

The second category is works that oppose feudal marriage, criticize feudal etiquette, and praise the innocent love of young men and women and the struggle for freedom and happiness, such as "Ying Ning", "Qingfeng", "A Xiu", "Liancheng", "Qing'e", "Crow's Head", "Ruiyun", etc.;

The third category is works that expose and criticize the corruption and various shortcomings of the imperial examination system, such as "Ye Sheng", "Yu Goes to Evil", "Examination Cheating Division", "Jia Fengpheasant", "Si Wenlang", "Wang Zi'an", "Three Lives", etc.;

The fourth category is works that praise the spirit of resistance and struggle of the oppressed people, such as "Shang Sanguan", "Xi Fangping", "Xiang Gao", etc.;

The fifth category, summarizing the lessons of life, educating people to be honest, helpful, hard-working, knowing and being able to change, etc., works with moral admonition significance, such as "Planting Pears", "Painting Skin", "Laoshan Taoist", "Pupil Language", "Wolf" and so on.

Talking about strange things, as the name suggests, is a story about fairies, foxes, ghosts, and ghosts.

Among them, the content of "Divine Fox Ghost Ghost Story" can be roughly divided into the following categories:

1. It is a friendship story between people or non-people;

2. It is a story of rebellion dissatisfied with the reality of the dark society;

3. It is a moral admonition story that satirizes bad behavior.

Meaning: "Liao Zhai" is the name of Pu Songling's bookstore, "Zhi" means to describe events, and "strange" refers to bizarre, bizarre and grotesque stories, in which the stories are full of irony and reference significance for reality. To a certain extent, he exposed social contradictions and expressed his desire for the real society.

There are nearly 500 articles in the book, which is rich in content, and is mainly divided into the following types:

The first is the love story, which occupies the largest proportion of the book, and most of the main characters of the story are not afraid of feudal etiquette and bravely pursue free love. This kind of famous articles include "Lotus Fragrance", "Xiao Xie", "Liancheng", "Eun Niang", "Crow's Head" and so on.

The second is to criticize the destruction of the imperial examination system on scholars. As a victim of the imperial examination system, Pu Songling has a lot of say in this regard, "Ye Sheng", "Si Wenlang", "Yu to Evil", "Wang Zi'an" and so on are all such famous articles.

The third is to expose the brutality of the ruling class and the oppression of the people, which is of great social significance, such as "Xi Fangping", "Promoting Weaving", "Dream Wolf", "Plum Girl" and so on.