Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio either exposes the darkness of feudal rule, criticizes the decay of imperial examination system, or resists the shackles of feudal ethics, which has 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.
Mr. Lu Xun once said that Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is "using legendary methods, but taking strangeness as an example". According to the original intention, it means to express a strange theme or content with legendary expression, that is, to accept the advantages of this classical Chinese novel before it, so Lu Xun included it in the "quasi-Jin and Tang novels" and correctly pointed out its source.
Lu Xun studied this book at the age of 65,438+02, and wrote in the Legend of the Tang Dynasty (Part II) in 65,438+09,265,438+0: "Qing Pu Songling wrote Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio, and also borrowed from tang legends characters, but his idea was close to the Six Dynasties. At that time, there were few ancient books, so readers felt very novel and popular.