First, Ling Mengchu lived in the apocalypse and Chongzhen years in the late Ming Dynasty. He is not only good at novels and plays, but also a famous overprinter publisher. Because of this, he has a close relationship with booksellers, which has also become? Two beats? One of the opportunities to have children.
Ling Mengchu once described his creation in the preface? Two beats? Motivation: Feng Menglong's series of novels at that time? Three words? The response in the market was very good and the sales volume was high, so the familiar booksellers came to him? Draft? Let him imitate and write a work with similar style. So Ling Mengchu imitated the theme and style of Feng Menglong's works and wrote a set of fictional novels called Surprise. The significance of the title of this book lies in that it brings together all kinds of twists and turns and stories full of coincidence, which can make readers amaze.
Because of his excellent writing skills, he told a tortuous and fascinating story. Once the book was published, it caused a great response in the market and sold like hot cakes.
Booksellers feel that they have found the wealth code, so they encourage Ling Mengchu to write another sequel. Five years later, Ling Mengchu wrote The Surprise of the Second Moment. For the sake of distinction, the previous book is called Surprise at the First Moment.
Second, persuade people to do good and save the world. Two beats? The opportunity for the birth of the book comes from the idea of booksellers creating bestsellers, but Ling Mengchu's own purpose is not just to earn some manuscript fees.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the social atmosphere gradually became extravagant, and a large number of erotic novels with low style became popular. Ling Mengchu thinks that this kind of novel is harmful to the social atmosphere, so he hopes to use his own creation to punish evil and promote good and rectify the social atmosphere.
Third, the status of literature, later researchers generally believe that Ling Mengchu? Two beats? Both language use and ideological level are similar to Feng Menglong. Three words? There is a certain gap, but it does not hinder? Two beats? Has its own value.
In Ling Mengchu's two collections of short stories, love stories occupy a large space. The author's resistance to these things? Parents' orders, matchmaker's words? Men and women who pursue love are sympathetic and positive. At the same time, his works also exposed the darkness of officialdom and attacked the crimes of corrupt officials, which is a concrete manifestation of his progressive thought. But at the same time, he can't give solutions to these problems, and he can only hope for superstitious methods such as karma and karma.
In addition, he also created a large number of businessmen in his works, such as? Scholars, farmers, businessmen? Finally, the status of businessmen in the feudal dynasty was not high. But in? Two beats? However, businessmen occupied a lot of space, which also proved that the status of businessmen gradually rose with the emergence of capitalist buds in the late Ming Dynasty. ? Two beats? Therefore, it has the value of recording the customs in the late Ming Dynasty.