Analysis:
Pu Songling: (1640- 17 15) a writer in Qing Dynasty. Liu Xian, alias Liu Quanju, was born in Zichuan (now Zibo), Shandong Province. There was a literary name at an early age, which was highly valued by history and Wang Shizhen. After many rural examinations, they all came last and became Gong Sheng at the age of 7 1. In addition to middle age, he also worked as a curtain in Baoying and a teacher in his hometown until his death. Poor family, contact with the bottom people's lives. Can write poetry, good at writing folk songs. For decades, he wrote a collection of short stories, Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, which was constantly revised and supplemented. His book used the style of tang legends's novels, criticizing the society and politics at that time by talking about ghosts and foxes. He also wrote Collected Works of Liaozhai, Poems of Liaozhai, Folk Songs of Liaozhai and various popular books about agriculture and medicine.
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is Pu Songling's masterpiece, which was basically completed when he was about 40 years old, and has been supplemented and revised since then. "Liaozhai" is the name of his bookstore, "Zhi" means narrative, and "Alien" means strange stories from Liaozhai. There are 49/kloc-0 short stories in the book. The subject matter is very extensive and the content is extremely rich. Most of the works strongly criticized the corruption and darkness of the society at that time by talking about foxes and ghosts, exposed social contradictions to a certain extent and expressed people's wishes. But there are also some fatalism of feudal ethics and karma. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio has a high artistic achievement. It has successfully created many artistic models, with vivid characters, bizarre and tortuous story, rigorous and ingenious structural layout, concise writing and delicate description, which can be called the pinnacle of China's classical short stories. Collect more than 500 pieces, ghosts and monsters. ...
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