Pu Songling was born in a declining family of small and medium-sized landlords and businessmen. /kloc-when he was 0/9 years old, he got the boy's exam and won the first place in county, government and road, which made him famous for a while.
Make up a doctoral disciple. I tried again and again until 7 1 Forced by life, he not only worked as a guest for Baoying county magistrate for several years, but also worked as a teacher for Bijia in Xipu village of this county for nearly 42 years, until the forty-eighth year of Kangxi (1709).
He completed 8 volumes of 49 1 Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in his life, with about 400,000 words. The content is rich and colorful, and the stories are mostly taken from folklore and anecdotes of unofficial history, personifying and socializing things in the world of flowers, foxes and ghosts, fully expressing the author's love, hate and good ideals. It is considered as the most successful collection of China ancient classical Chinese short stories.
Guo Moruo once commented: "Writing ghosts and writing demons is superior, and stabbing greed and stabbing abuse is three points."
In the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi (17 15), he died at the age of 76. In addition to Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, Pu Songling has a large number of poems, plays, folk songs and works in agriculture and medicine, totaling nearly 2 million words.
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1, main works:
Pu Songling once wrote a collection of short stories "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio" for decades, and constantly revised and supplemented it. His book used the style of tang legends's novels, criticizing the society and politics at that time by talking about ghosts and foxes.
There are 49 1 short stories in the book Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio (Zhang Youhe's Notes on Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio School) (Zhu's Notes on Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio are 494).
They either exposed the darkness of feudal rule, attacked the decay of imperial examination system, or resisted the shackles of feudal ethics, and had rich and profound ideological content.
The works describing the theme of love are the largest in the book, showing a strong anti-feudal ethical code spirit. Some of these works show the author's ideal love through the love between foxes and people.
2. Main achievements
Pu Songling was born in a scholarly family. In his early years, he also wanted to use the imperial examination to be an official. Unfortunately, he tried again and again and could only make a living by teaching. He has been interested in folk ghost stories since childhood.
It is said that Pu Songling once opened a teahouse in front of his house in order to collect materials. People who come to drink tea can use a story instead of tea money. Pu Songling collected a large number of bizarre stories in this way, and after finishing and processing, they were included in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio.
According to the notes of the Qing Dynasty, "Three Borrowing Lu Bi Tan", Pu Songling spread a mat on the ground next to the avenue every morning and set up a yancha, waiting for passers-by to collect anecdotes. Every time I hear something, I whitewash it when I go home.
In the first year of Kangxi (1662), Pu Songling began to write stories about foxes and ghosts at the age of 22. In the spring of the eighteenth year of Kangxi, forty-year-old Pu Songling compiled the manuscript into a book Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio for the first time, with a preface in the south. Since then, it has been added frequently.
It was not until around 239 and 46 years of Kangxi that there were several addenda in the book. The writing of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio lasted more than forty years, and Pu Songling devoted most of his energy.
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