Pu Songling usually likes to collect strange folk stories. After his death, he became famous as a collection of short stories "Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio", which shaped many representative artistic images such as Nie, Lian Xiang and so on. Pu Songling is keen on seeking fame, but his achievements in the imperial examination are not satisfactory. The creation of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio not only satisfied his curiosity, but also became a way for him to entrust his personal thoughts.
In August of the 9th year of Kangxi (167 1), Pu Songling worked as an attendant for fellow scholar Sun Hui in Baoying County, Jiangsu Province, then went to Gaoyou and returned to his hometown a year later. At home, he once traveled to Laoshan with courtiers and Tang. Twelve years in the countryside, Wang Guanzheng was sitting in a pavilion.
In the forty-eighth year of Kangxi (1709), Pu Songling left the Chuo Ran Hall of Gaby Yin Shi Garden, where he taught for nearly 40 years, and did not return to China until he was 7 1 year old. Kangxi died of illness in fifty-four years, and his life was quite unsatisfactory.
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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. He also wrote some popular books about agriculture and medicine, such as Collected Works of Liaozhai, Liaozhai Poetry and Liaozhai Folk Songs. He once wrote 14 kinds of folk songs.
Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio is China's most accomplished collection of short stories in classical Chinese. It is not only a masterpiece of legendary stories, but also an unprecedented artistic level of short stories. Together with Du Li's poems and A Dream of Red Mansions, it constitutes a continuous peak in the history of China literature.
Later, a number of masterpieces such as hanger-on Pavilion Edition and Zhu Xuezhai Edition were reprinted, and simulation works such as Harmony Duet, New Qi Xie, Rain at Night and Autumn Lantern Record appeared one after another. Ji Yun's Notes on Yuewei Caotang is also a note novel influenced by it. This book is not only a treasure house of China literature, but also an oriental treasure in Universal Library.
From 65438 to 0848, Samuel Wells Williams, an American, translated Planting Pears and Scolding Ducks into English. Up to now, 30 editions of Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio in English, French, German, Czech, etc. 18 have been popular all over the world, which has had an important influence on the development of Japanese literature. There are 100 publications of Liaozhai in China, and 160 dramas, movies and TV series with the story of Liaozhai as their content.