The first category is the works that reflect the darkness of society and expose and criticize the crimes of the feudal ruling class oppressing and harming the people, such as Selling the Weaver Girl, Redjade, Dreaming of the Wolf, Mei Nv, Continued Huang Liang, Dou Shi and so on.
The second category is works that oppose feudal marriage, criticize feudal ethics, and praise young men and women's pure love and strive for freedom and happiness, such as Ying Ning, Qing Feng, Axiu, Liancheng, Qinge, Crow's Head and Ruiyun.
The third category is the works that expose and criticize the corruption and various drawbacks of the imperial examination system, such as Yu Qu Evil, Jia, Si Wenlang, and Sansheng.
The fourth category is works praising the rebellious spirit of the oppressed people, such as Shangsanguan, Xi Fangping and Xianggao.
The fifth category, summing up the experience and lessons in life, educating people to be honest, helpful, hardworking and successful. All of them are works of moral admonition, such as Planting Pears, Painted Skin, Taoist Laoshan, Puppy Talk and Wolf.
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is a collection of short stories in classical Chinese by Pu Songling, a novelist in Qing Dynasty.
There are 4,965,438+0 short stories in the book (Notes on the School Meeting of Strange Stories from a Lonely Studio) (494 Notes on Strange Stories from a Lonely Studio by Zhu).
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.
Artistic features:
The first is to use the legendary method to refute rumors. Traditional mystery novels generally describe the wonders of ghosts and gods, with short length and only a "rough outline", simple language and literary talent. Tang legends's novels, on the other hand, are "full of narrative and flowery rhetoric", and the main body of the novel is the lover gesture of human beings. Pu Songling borrowed the legendary specialty to write the charm of flowers and foxes, which made the content of the novel wonderful and full, the plot bizarre and vivid, showing extremely psychedelic and tortuous colors.
Second, the plot is tortuous and the narrative is orderly. Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio improves the artistic quality of the novel and enriches its forms and types. One of the elements of the novel is the plot. One of the tracks of the evolution of China's classical novels is from rough outline to euphemistic narration. Most of the carefully written stories in Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio have twists and turns in details, and some chapters especially win with twists and turns.
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